From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 1 16:55:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA07615 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 16:55:05 -0700 Received: from feephi.phofarm.com (feephi.phofarm.com [204.242.60.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07609 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 16:55:04 -0700 Received: (from dzerkel@localhost) by feephi.phofarm.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA20283 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 19:52:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 19:52:14 -0400 From: "Danny J. Zerkel" Message-Id: <199507012352.TAA20283@feephi.phofarm.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Configuration file location Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Trying to move system configuration files out of /etc is not a good idea. Especially into /var. Next thing you know, someone will want to put fstab in /var... /var is intended for files which change frequently, like log files (thus there is a /var/adm). It is not for configuration (which shouldn't change particularly frequently). Moving configuration files out of /etc will also break far to many books, manuals and administration guides for UNIX (and UNIX-like systems). It is not worth making FreeBSD less accessible to newbies. /etc/sysconfig seems right on target so far. But, there will always be a need for rc.local... ------------------------------------------------------------ Danny J. Zerkel Photon Farmers http:/www.phofarm.com/