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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!easix!knobel.gun.de!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: please help a dummy Date: 12 Sep 1994 20:35:17 GMT Organization: home, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <352e2o$37l@knobel.gun.de> References: <34ifci$qqh@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.gun.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Johannes Faerber (faerber@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : I found a second /etc under my /usr directory - it contains files : like gettytab, rc.local, rc.serial .... - but changes in these files : don't take any effect. : is /etc supposed to exist 2 times? If no, may I delete it? If yes : what is it good for? Might it be the case, that you copied /etc to /usr/etc somehow ? Generally you only need the files in /etc ... But beware, perhaps there are some files, that have to remain in /usr/etc depending on your flavour of BSD you are using. In FreeBSD there isn't such a subdirectory ... but don't know if BSDI or NetBSD have it ... Unfortunately you didn't mention what OS you exactly run ... -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - akl@wup.de -