On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:42:52AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > > > > For system (OS, that's kernel and userland) settings you have /etc > > For local (packages/ports) settings you have /usr/local/etc or /usr/X11R6/etc > > > > Of course these two local bases should have been merely hard linked long ago > > but that's not my decision :) > > One very good reason to keep these separate is that you might be mounting > /usr/{local,X11R6} on many machines from a shared NFS drive. By keeping the > shared configuration on the shared drive you don't have to replicate it on > every machine, and /etc just contains machine-specific configuration.
But most of what's in /usr/local/etc is machine-specific. Personally, on the next rebuild I intend to make /usr/local/etc a symbolic link to /etc/local. (Then again, I plan to use /opt for third-party applications and /usr/local only for locally-developed applications. /opt/etc will be a symbolic link to /etc/opt as well.) Note that I'm using a symbolic link; this is because /etc is on the root filesystem while /usr and /opt will be separate filesystems. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website X HELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"