> Well, to the extent that you're serious, you understand that > a lot of people feel that /usr/local should be reserved for > stuff that's installed by the local sysadmin, and your > vendor/distro isn't supposed to be messing with it. > > Which means if the the vendor installed Postgresql (say, the > Red Hat Database) you'd expect config files to be in /etc. > If the postgresql is compiled from source by local admin, > you might look somewhere in /usr/local.
Indeed. For better or worse, there is a Filesystem Hierarcy Standard, and most of the important Linux distros, BSDs and some legacy Unixen stick to it, so so should we. Configuration files should be in /etc/postgresql/, or at the very least symlinked from there. Martin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])