>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
hpa> "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.
>>
hpa> The other way around. I actually think RedHat has that one just right.
hpa> I have found it much easier to browse the init files that way.
I also liked that change from redhat, but I preffer much more the
file-rc package form debian. Everything is in one plain file, very
easy to read/change/....
Later, Juan.
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