Re: New place for /etc/magic ?
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 03:03:12AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> Upstream has chang /etc/magic to /usr/share/magic.
>
> Idea:
> * I'll move /etc/magic to /usr/share/magic and no longer mark it as a
> conffile.
> * I'll write a short /etc/magic with a message: "Add your local file
> definitions here, the main defs will be taken from /usr/share/magic, but
> don't edit there, send the entry to..."
> * I'll have `file' parse /etc/magic first.
I like it. The existing /etc/magic is not really a conffile. But then
again, neither are /etc/services, /etc/protocols, ...
Avery
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