Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem with /usr/local/etc as it stands is that it is in a
> shareable tree. It would be better to have /etc/local and
> /etc/local/share, IMHO.
Theres also another thing that came to my mind. There might be
conffiles that are shareable, but that
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:06:18PM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> > No... The package puts a file that needs to be modified by the site (and
> > possibly by the individual machine) in /usr/share.. Perhaps the program
> > is at fault for doing this. I do know that lintian will generate an
> > err
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> /etc is intended to be the only repository for configuration
> information. It is machine specific. However, machine-specific does
> not mean that the configuration information in /etc cannot be shared
> between machines. This can be done via symb
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No... The package puts a file that needs to be modified by the site (and
> possibly by the individual machine) in /usr/share.. Perhaps the program
> is at fault for doing this. I do know that lintian will generate an
> error on the package should I ru
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:17:30AM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> > Interesting points. However I would suggest that most of the files in
> > /etc are about local configurations, and are, in general, not
> > shareable. In fact, the FHS defines /etc as being for non-shareable,
>
> You need to be
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Interesting points. However I would suggest that most of the files in
>> /etc are about local configurations, and are, in general, not
>> shareable. In fact, the FHS defines /etc as being for non-shareable,
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Interesting points. However I would suggest that most of the files in
> /etc are about local configurations, and are, in general, not
> shareable. In fact, the FHS defines /etc as being for non-shareable,
You need to be careful about using the word "s
> On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 12:33:21AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Interesting points. However I would suggest that most of the files in
> > /etc are about local configurations, and are, in general, not
> > shareable. In fact, the FHS defines /etc as being for non-shareable,
> > static data. B
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Interesting points. However I would suggest that most of the files in
> /etc are about local configurations, and are, in general, not
> shareable. In fact, the FHS defines /etc as being for non-shareable,
> static data. But what should be done for sha
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 12:33:21AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Interesting points. However I would suggest that most of the files in
> /etc are about local configurations, and are, in general, not
> shareable. In fact, the FHS defines /etc as being for non-shareable,
> static data. But what sh
Interesting points. However I would suggest that most of the files in
/etc are about local configurations, and are, in general, not
shareable. In fact, the FHS defines /etc as being for non-shareable,
static data. But what should be done for shareable configuration
data? Debian uses /etc as the
I'd agree with something along these lines, just from my own experiences
with my network, and more recently having to reload both of my surviving
machines pretty much from scratch. (Good reason for having multiple
drives)
My own thought would be to keep the regular config files in /etc or
/etc/,
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
> > --- 7,10
> >
> > umask 002
> > test -x /usr/bin/check-sendfile && /usr/bin/check-sendfile || /bin/true
> > + test -f /usr/local/etc/profile && . /usr/local/etc/profile
>
> Eeks, no! There's no such directory as /usr/local/etc. /
> One of the things that really annoys me about prepackaged
> distributions is the way they tend to ignore everything that isn't in
> packages. E.g., the only way to get non-deb GTK themes in
> /usr/local/share/themes recognized by the GTK config is to link them
> into /usr/share/themes, which is
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Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > *** profile.origWed Jun 16 12:03:43 1999
> > - --- profile Wed Jun 16 12:04:01 1999
> > ***
> > *** 7,9
> > - --- 7,10
> >
Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> *** profile.origWed Jun 16 12:03:43 1999
> - --- profile Wed Jun 16 12:04:01 1999
> ***
> *** 7,9
> - --- 7,10
>
> umask 002
> test -x /usr/bin/check-sendfile && /usr/bin/check-sendfile || /bin/true
> + test -
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Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16-Jun-99, 07:08 (CDT), Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > What's so hard about that? If
> > > you want pico to be the system wide de
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