On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:47:15PM -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > > > > Yes I say now, because I've had to look in /etc /opt/etc/ and > /usr/local/etc to find a config file for many packages. Yes it's not like > Debian, but to look in so many different places for each package, it's time > consuming and hard to remember which packages store the config in which > location. I can understand /etc and /etc/srvconfg (can't remember exactly) > because they are around the same location in the file system. If there has > been uniformity, it wasn't enforced very well.
The /opt/etc and /usr/local/etc directories should only exist if you've installed something manually (with "make install" or a vendor-provided installer). An rpm/deb package should never write to either of these directories. I've never had the displeasure of dealing with this problem. Are you sure you weren't dealing with a manually installed program? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
