Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 1 May 1996 16:57:26 -0400 (EDT) | From | Dan Merillat <> | Subject | Re: Cleaning up the config files in /etc (Re: As 2.0 looms) (fwd) |
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:06:03 -0500 (CDT) From: lilo <TaRDiS@ao.net> (SeNdMaIl HaRf- Bad Addr) To: "vivek.kalra" <vk@aloft.att.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, vk@aloft.att.com Subject: Re: Cleaning up the config files in /etc (Re: As 2.0 looms)
On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, vivek.kalra wrote:
> Could we try to standardize the location of the configuration files > for all and sundry in /etc/conf.d and have all the conf.whatever > files go in there? The problem with having all these configuration > files residing in /etc is the same as with various rc* files -- too > much clutter. /etc/rc.d got rid of the rc* clutter; perhaps it is > time for /etc/conf.d to do the same for config.*? I'm willing to > try to make a patch to do this if it is acceptable to others... > The changes can be done in way that if /etc/conf.d doesn't exist, > we look in /etc as we do now...
How weird. In effect, /etc IS /etc/conf.d.... :)
No. BUT: pid files should get the hell out of /etc, /etc/mtab should go to /var/run, anything dynamic out. Subdirs for different systems (networking, mail, whadevva)
I don't mind much, but I dislike having to rewrite so many programs to mount / read-only. (The way it should be on a secure site.)
/etc/vga, /etc/dos, /etc/X11... A lot of intelligent distributions allready MAKE a new dir in /etc.
--Dan
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