Re: [OT] Why /etc?

[hiranokazunari <hrnkaz@netscape.net>]

Thanks Craig.
I should have learnt from the history.
Now I can read /etc as etcetera
from the bottom of my heart.

K.Hirano

crdic@pacbell.net wrote:

>hiranokazunari wrote:
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>>I understand /bin represents binaries,
>>/dev represents devices,
>>/lib represents libraries,
>>/mnt represents mount,
>>/opt represents option(?) etc...
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>>But I am wondering why the host-specific
>>configuration partition is called /etc?
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>If you go back to very early versions of Unix, like 7th ed. (c. 1979) or
>earlier, you find that there's actually a lot of stuff in the /etc
>directory, not just conf files. It really was the "stuff that doesn't go
>anywhere else" directory, hence the name /etc. At least I assume that's
>how the name was devised.
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>Craig
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