Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 May 1996 22:46:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | Dan Merillat <> | Subject | Re: Cleaning up the config files in /etc (Re: As 2.0 looms) (fwd) |
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On Mon, 6 May 1996, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 14:01:51 +0100 (BST) > From: Darren J Moffat <darren@xarius.demon.co.uk> > To: Dan Merillat <harik@ao.net> > Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> > Subject: Re: Cleaning up the config files in /etc (Re: As 2.0 looms) (fwd) > > 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
Yes, they do, But tell distributions that. Syslogd and klogd both drop pid files in /etc. Just a matter of a changed path, but still! Very bad place to have pid files in the first place.
--Dan
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