On 2/9/02 at 2:09 AM, Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Douthitt wrote:
> > I don't place a lot of faith in standardizing on binary > > locations... > > I'm a devout believer in systems and process. > > We are dealing with a very small system with LEAF. The > process of reaching consensus on conventions, such as > filesystem management and program location, may seem > trivial and without value to some [...] I don't think it's trivial or without value - just impossible :-} I'm a strong believer in standards - but I've worked with enough UNIX systems to see how Standard Things Can Be... Let's see - what do I use to administrate the system? Is it linuxconf? sysadm? sam? smit? (LInux, Unixware, HP-UX, and AIX in order....) What about packages? Is it apkg? lrpkg? RPM? apt-get? swinstall? pkg_add? (Oxygen, LRP, Red Hat, Debian, HP-UX, Unixware and *BSD...) > but, as this system > grows, I guarantee that willy-nilly file placement is > going to result in some application stomping on some > namespace or another that some other application insists > is its own ;< I think if one wants to stick to a standard, the LFS is a good place to start. I tried, but got lost in the thick of things. I DID try to put all required system files in /bin or /sbin and user stuff into /usr/bin and /usr/sbin... -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
