Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>
> This is not saying it'll stay that way forever. (It WILL stay that way for
> 7.0.)
I've had my own symlinks for a while, it just was nice to
see that moving to the default. Now it's back to the symlinks.
> There have been a couple of problems with the initial move. Among other
> things, rpm needed some really ugly kludges to be able to handle replacing
> a directory with a symlink (quite a bad idea in many other
> situations) and some people who do not work with other unixes complained
> about the "mess" in /etc caused by the move.
I guess they would love HP-UX 9.x
executables like mount ands shutdown hiding in
/etc along with the config files.
> We have /etc/init.d symlinks so if you do what you do in other unixes,
> it'll work. (We've just reversed the situation).
So /etc/init.d is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/init.d
in the new initscripts?
The wonders of Unix. It'd be nice if Sun, HP, SGI, IBM,
and the linux guys could get together and pick a common
way to configure the system. Don't guess it'll happen
any time soon, but it should.
I really don't care whre the stuff is, just put it in the
same place on all the systems. Or make it so I can.
I tried moving the HPUX stuff in /sbin to /etc
like Red Hat and Solaris. Spent 3 days tracking
down problems and had to give up because it still
didn't work right.
-Thomas
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