Subject: Re: Seen in comp.os.minix

From: [email-masked] (Mike Murphy)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 16:52:46 PST

In the also unforgettable words of Bruce Varney
>In the unforgettable words of  Alan B Clegg:
>->
>->Just a bit of humor to lighten your day:
>->
>->BTW:  Unless there are *STRONG* complaints, I am going to post "Draft 2" of
>->	the Directory Standards Document to alt.os.linux, and linux-activists
>->	on Wednesday, February 19.

>Admin binaries should be in /etc. That is my only complaint, and it
>is a *STRONG* one.
>->	
Strongly agreed that admin binaries should be in /etc, including, but not
limited to /etc/init. I also have strong feelings about this. I seem to
remember a reference to /usr/uucp, too, rather than to /usr/lib/uucp. I
would prefer the /usr/lib/uucp /usr/spool/uucp pair, again, pretty strong
feelings...

The U**X rationale for the distribution of files between /etc, /bin, /usr/bin,
/lib, and /usr/lib weren't bad. I feel, however, that /usr/spool/cron and
/usr/lib/cron are misused in a "normal" U**X environment. It seems that
/usr/lib/cron should be used for the tables and definitions and such,
and that /usr/spool/cron should be used for the logs. Oh, well. Maybe the
tables and such would have been better in /etc/cron.d, analogous to /etc/rc.d,
/etc/rc0.d, and the like.
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From: [email-masked] ("Mark W. Eichin")
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 23:10:50 -0500

A few people are...
>>> Strongly agreed that admin binaries should be in /etc, including, but not
	Sorry... either have binaries there, or config files -- *Not*
both. The BSD 4.4 model (which I think is what one of the draft posix
standards is related to, if not derived from) has config files in /etc
and executables in /usr/etc/ (DEC Ultrix and SunOS have already
adopted this.) Having executables in /etc may be "traditional", but
that's just because it is a traditional mistake...
				_Mark_ <[email-masked]>
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