What we keep under /etc

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Sun Oct 10 17:20:02 PDT 2004


On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 02:34:27PM -0500, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> Umm... Read the discussion again. The topic isn't /ALL/ of /etc just 
> those directories that are considered part of the OS like /etc/rc.d and 
> /etc/defaults. The difference is rc.d contains only the startup scripts 
> for the operating system. All others /should/ be in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

That is too strong a statement given we have the 'local_startup'
/etc/rc.conf knob.  "Non-FreeBSD Project vendor" scripts should go in any
desired place that is listed in 'local_startup'.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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