Re: Proposal: /etc /usr/etc /usr/local/etc
Vadim Vygonets writes:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> > Then I guess that having some sort of "search path" for config files,
> > that is looking first if /etc contains a conffile, and only if not,
> > taking the one installed in /usr/etc. This could even be made to use
> > conffiles for groups (sub-sites) of computers, by using
> > /etc:/nfs/mygroup/etc:/usr/etc as a search path.
>
> Cool. I agree it's cool. It will take more work than my simple
> standard solution, but it's nice.
>
> > You probably spotted the problem: this would probably require to
> > change individual programs to conform to this, and it would be quite
> > difficult to have all programs work like that. We could probably speed
> > up the conversion process by providing a library to handle that.
>
> Not a shared lib, tho. Statically linked one. I can write it (after
> all, this mess was my idea).
Why not a shared lib ?
> > Another solution, probably needingless work, would be to implement
> > some mechanism in the filesystem driver (yes, I do seem to like this
> > kind of ideas :) to make all reference to an inexistant file under
> > /etc be handled as a link to a file of the same name under
> > /usr/etc. That would be some sort of "default link" associated with a
> > directory. Such a mechanism, when properly detected by autoconf and
> > handled by user-programs, might help other programs too (though I
> > hardly see which ones for now :)
>
> Nah. It's too hairy for this simple thing. I think the first
> solution is better.
It'd be available more quickly than if you had to hack all
packages... and at least it'd be a good exercise implementing that!
Maybe I could find some time to do that ?
> > Any comments on this ?
>
> I repeat: look at other Unices. Their solution is as simple as it can
> be: a config file in /usr, that's all. But your first solution is
> acceptable, too.
Yes, these other unices' solution seems far less general...
Regards,
--
Yann Dirson <dirson@univ-mlv.fr>
http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson
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