Re: [OT] Why /etc?

["N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu>]

* hiranokazunari <hrnkaz@netscape.net> [2002-12-14 11:44:42 +0900]:
> > > But I am wondering why the host-specific configuration partition
> > > is called /etc?
> > 
> > [...] 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.
>
> I should have learnt from the history. Now I can read /etc as etcetera
> from the bottom of my heart.

Note that etc directory in Unix is pronounced "ett-see", it rhymes with
the proper name Betsy. It probably can't hurt to think of it like that
either.

thomas

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