"Christopher W. Curtis" wrote:
>
> Let me qualify myself as saying I'm a Debian user, and that I prefer a
> non-massive /etc. As such, I prefer autofs existing as /etc/autofs/*,
> and not /etc/auto.*; it is different, sure, than redhat and derived
> products, but if you want to say to base it on mature Unix OSes, what
> exactly do you mean? Solaris has tons of subdirectories under /etc,
> calls fstab vfstab, calls exports dfs/something, with a bazillion links
> for *most* files in subdirectories, and even places files in there that
> cause a grep to hang. Digital Unix / OSF places many of these files in
> /sbin. I don't consider either of these precedents worth following, and
> they are (at least Solaris is) in the space that we want Linux to be
> able to compete. At some point, you have to stop being a follower, and
> start being a leader. RedHat puts rc.d in /etc/init.d, which I don't
> think is right, either. /etc/rc.d is fine without an extra subdir in
> there.
>
The other way around. I actually think RedHat has that one just right.
I have found it much easier to browse the init files that way.
-hpa
