Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 6 May 1996 14:01:51 +0100 (BST) | From | Darren J Moffat <> | Subject | Re: Cleaning up the config files in /etc (Re: As 2.0 looms) (fwd) |
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On Wed, 1 May 1996, Dan Merillat wrote:
> 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.
Please move this discussion to linux-fsstnd@uscd.edu where it belongs.
For your info, /etc/*.pid live in /var/run
-- Darren J Moffat
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