> Okay, here's one: most Unix systems store all of the configuration > files in a well known directory: /etc. These days it's a hierarchy of > directories with /etc as the root of the hierarchy. When an > administrator is looking for configuration files, the first place he's > going to look is in /etc and its subdirectories. After that, he's > forced to look through the startup scripts to figure out where things > are located. And if those aren't revealing, then he has to read > manpages and hope they're actually useful. :-) And if that doesn't > work, then he has to resort to tricks like doing "strings" on the > binaries (he doesn't necessarily have access to the sources that the > binaries were compiled from, which is all that matters here).
No goddammit - /usr/local/etc. Why can't the Linux community respect history!!!! It is the ONE TRUE PLACE dammit!!! Chris (btw, there is humour + seriousness in above post...) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
