Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 08:37:54 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET) To: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/*.d... Message-ID: <199611280737.AA02115@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <199611280347.WAA00626@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at "Nov 27, 96 10:47:51 pm"
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Brian J. McGovern wrote / a ecrit:
> I was just tinkering around with 2.2-ALPHA, and noticed that some startup
> information had been shifted from /etc/rc.local into individual shells
> in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (and others, for X11 for instance).
>
> Now, although I think this is a neat idea. I'm not real keen on the location
> of the files....
>
> As I run several FreeBSD boxes, I tend to keep one as a "server", and then
> a series of clients. The "server" machine is the one with the big disk, and
> maintains most of the binaries (ie - /usr/local/bin). The server also runs
> most of the services - mail, the web server, anonymous ftp, the databases, etc.
>
(...)
> Now, I'm a little hesitant to conform to this "new standard", as, if I migrate
> from using /etc/rc.local to the rc.* directories, these directories will now
> be common across all machines (which is bad).
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to stick it under /etc somplace, rather than in
> /usr/local/etc (which, I know, has always been a rather stupid name for a
> directory you're most likely going to export?), so its not a "common place".
> Either that, or change the standard path for user installed binaries to be
> something other than /usr/local (perhaps /usr/export - more like the Sun
> naming scheme).
I absolutely second that. In my opinion, /usr/local should remain
under the total control of the local sysadmin, the standard
uncustomized version of the O/S should not touch it. On my site,
/usr/local is also shared by machines so it would be a real pain.
I like the way it is done by HP-UX 10.*, keeping scripts in /sbin/*.d
directories and configuration files sourced by those scripts in
/etc/rc.config.d. I know that this might look a bit too SystemV-ish
for people here, but it's certainly easy to manage across upgrades.
At the very least, I agree with Brian that startup files should remain
in the / filesystem.
Just my 0.10 FF (at the current US dollar rate)
Have a nice day,
_Alain_
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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