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Re: Why /usr/local/etc???
- To: Gary Kline <kline_(_at_)_thought_(_dot_)_org>
- Subject: Re: Why /usr/local/etc???
- From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix_(_at_)_embarqmail_(_dot_)_com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:50:11 -0400
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:24:48 -0700
Gary Kline <kline_(_at_)_thought_(_dot_)_org> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> This may have been covered too-often before, buy why can't
> *everything* related to /etc hang off "/etc"? I can create a
> symlink in /etc to /usr/local/etc named "loc" or "local".
> Thing is, why this isn't done by default?
Everything could be off / too but that's not how FreeBSD does it.
See man 7 heir. Its a sketch of the FreeBSD filesystem hierarchy.
Randy
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