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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Making UNIX easier...
Date: 7 Jun 1995 10:39:43 +0200
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:
>>One thing I would like to see rationalised is the locations of
>>configuration files. Rather than being scattered around the directory
>>tree, I would like to see an effort made to put these things all in one
>>place to facilitate building admin shells.
>
>See what a few of us have done with /etc/sysconfig in 2.0.5!
>
>It's not 100% there yet by any means, but it's a reasonable start.
And despite of this, all the system's configuration files are being
located under /etc anyway. (This doesn't mean that all `ports' do it
already this way, but the base system.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)