Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

[Scott Klement <bsd4i@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dennis,

I'm running FreeBSD, and on FreeBSD most of the packages have their 
configurations in /usr/local/etc rather than /etc.  (And there's no /opt 
at all.)

The stuff in /etc is config for the OS-included stuff, like the 
networking, firewall, DNS, etc.   The only thing that I've run into is 
that there are variables in /etc that control whether packages are 
automatically started at boot (or not).  In those cases, you have to 
manually retype those variables.  (If you look in /usr/local/etc/rc.d on 
FreeBSD, you can see all the things that might start at boot -- then you 
have to manually re-create the entries in /etc/rc.conf -- a minor pain...)


Dennis Lovelady wrote:
> Good thinking, Scott!  But I wonder what you do about other directories
> (especially /etc) that are pretty much system-wide directories, but may have
> stuff necessary for your /usr (or /opt) stuff?
>
> Regards,
> Dennis Lovelady
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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