Subject: Seen in comp.os.minix

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 20:45:02 EST

I know it's not standard, but how about /etc/bin and /etc/log, and/or
/usr/etc/bin and /usr/etc/log as appropriate.  Or if we want to keep
things "standard", I would vote with KISS, i.e.  "/bin:/etc:/usr/bin",
with no links, symbolic or otherwise.

I very much dislike the idea of having to have /usr/etc around to get
at admin binaries.

As for cleaning up log files, I would suggest a standard clean_logs
shell script (or some similar scheme).

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Murphy)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 10:09:15 PST

You hide all the definitions for weirdo disks and such under /dev/dsk/ and
/dev/rdsk/, and wierdo tapes under /dev/mt/ and then link the /dev/hd0
(or equivalent) to the /dev/dsk/0s4 (or equivalent) and link /dev/tape
to /dev/mt/9tr1600snr (or some such where the major/minor lets me talk to
my 9track1600bpi in non-rewind streaming modeu. Then you can to refer to
/dev/tape instead of having to diddle with mknod when you do things like
change to a cartridge tape drive. Make sense?
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Optigraphics Corporation  9339 Carroll Park Drive  San Diego, CA  92121
The opinion(s) expressed above are  mine  and not those of my employer.

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas David Rivers)
Date: 21 Feb 92 06:37:13 EST (Fri)

> > I completely agree with having just admin. files in /etc and executables in
> > /usr/etc.
> 
> Ok, put init in /usr/etc, and make sure /usr is mounted just before you
> exec it.
> 
> Minor problem.
> 

I don't agree here, putting init in /usr/etc and "making sure /usr is
mounted" is not a "minor problem", especially considering  a networked
environment  (in some newer UNIXs /usr isn't actually on a local drive,
/usr/xxxx where xxxxx is anything but "local" isn't on a local drive.)

In my opinion, SUN, et. al. have gone a long way in solving these issues
with the /var directory, etc... we should *seriously* look at what they
did, why they did it, before we re-invent the wheel...

      - Dave Rivers -