From linux Mon Feb 17 09:39:45 1992
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Subject: Seen in comp.os.minix
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From: Alan B Clegg <abc@concert.net>
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Just a bit of humor to lighten your day:
===
Snipped from someone's signature:
LINUXCY, n. Mental derangement caused by inability to appreciate another's
need for speed and pursuit of happiness, leading to excessive
flaming and waste of bandwidth !
===
BTW: Unless there are *STRONG* complaints, I am going to post "Draft 2" of
the Directory Standards Document to alt.os.linux, and linux-activists
on Wednesday, February 19.
I would like to release it as "Directory Standards Document 1.0" unless
there sre other ideas for a rational name.. (It will include the
header about it being completely voluntary, so we won't step on any
toes.)
-abc
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From linux-standards-request@concert.net Wed Feb 19 20:07:38 1992
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From: optigfx!optisun17!mrm@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Murphy)
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Subject: Re: Seen in comp.os.minix
In the also unforgettable words of Bruce Varney
>In the unforgettable words of Alan B Clegg:
>->
>->Just a bit of humor to lighten your day:
>->
>->BTW: Unless there are *STRONG* complaints, I am going to post "Draft 2" of
>-> the Directory Standards Document to alt.os.linux, and linux-activists
>-> on Wednesday, February 19.
>Admin binaries should be in /etc. That is my only complaint, and it
>is a *STRONG* one.
>->
Strongly agreed that admin binaries should be in /etc, including, but not
limited to /etc/init. I also have strong feelings about this. I seem to
remember a reference to /usr/uucp, too, rather than to /usr/lib/uucp. I
would prefer the /usr/lib/uucp /usr/spool/uucp pair, again, pretty strong
feelings...
The U**X rationale for the distribution of files between /etc, /bin, /usr/bin,
/lib, and /usr/lib weren't bad. I feel, however, that /usr/spool/cron and
/usr/lib/cron are misused in a "normal" U**X environment. It seems that
/usr/lib/cron should be used for the tables and definitions and such,
and that /usr/spool/cron should be used for the logs. Oh, well. Maybe the
tables and such would have been better in /etc/cron.d, analogous to /etc/rc.d,
/etc/rc0.d, and the like.
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Subject: re: Seen in comp.os.minix
A few people are...
>>> Strongly agreed that admin binaries should be in /etc, including, but not
Sorry... either have binaries there, or config files -- *Not*
both. The BSD 4.4 model (which I think is what one of the draft posix
standards is related to, if not derived from) has config files in /etc
and executables in /usr/etc/ (DEC Ultrix and SunOS have already
adopted this.) Having executables in /etc may be "traditional", but
that's just because it is a traditional mistake...
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
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From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
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In-Reply-To: David W. Summers's message of Thu, 20 Feb 92 09:49 CST,
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Subject: Re: Seen in comp.os.minix
Reply-To: tytso@athena.mit.edu
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Sorry... either have binaries there, or config files -- *Not*
both. The BSD 4.4 model (which I think is what one of the draft posix
standards is related to, if not derived from) has config files in /etc
and executables in /usr/etc/ (DEC Ultrix and SunOS have already
adopted this.) Having executables in /etc may be "traditional", but
that's just because it is a traditional mistake...
No, that's not the BSD 4.4 model; they have /sbin for the admin
binaries. The problem is that you need to start /usr/etc/init before
/usr is mounted....
Look, this seems to be going nowhere. We can't just blindly point and
say look! BSD 4.3 did it this way! Sun OS did it that way! The only
reason why we were doing this was that we don't want to screw users
who have always been used to finding programs in particular places
(/etc/mount, /bin/grep, /bin/ed, etc., etc.). But aside from that, we
need to architect something that works as a cohesive whole.
Putting init in /usr/etc when it was previously assumed that /usr might
be a mounted partition, all in the name of "Horray for our side!" is
going to result in a camel --- a horse designed by a committee. Before
we get all wrapped up in aesthetics, let's come up with a cohesive
document THAT WORKS.
Slightly annoyed,
- Ted