Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 May 1996 16:12:49 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: Cleaning up the config files in /etc (Re: As 2.0 looms) |
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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> On 29 Apr 96 at 10:49, vivek.kalra wrote: > > > > > Could we try to standardize the location of the configuration files > > for all and sundry in /etc/conf.d and have all the conf.whatever > > files go in there? The problem with having all these configuration > > files residing in /etc is the same as with various rc* files -- too > > much clutter. /etc/rc.d got rid of the rc* clutter; perhaps it is > > The proper path is /sbin/init.d, while the configuration files for > this go into /etc/rc.config.d, but this is all not kernel related. > > > time for /etc/conf.d to do the same for config.*? I'm willing to > > try to make a patch to do this if it is acceptable to others... > > The changes can be done in way that if /etc/conf.d doesn't exist, > > we look in /etc as we do now... > > > > Vivek > > vk@aloft.att.com > > Ulrich
This isn't strictly a kernel issue... I use debian, and debian has no /sbin/init.d or /etc/conf.d, the files are moved around. This is distribution specific -- I don't think it's anywhere in the kernel.
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