Re: mandatory files in /etc
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andrew Josey wrote:
> As part of the testing of the fhs aspects of the LSB I've noticed
> that the spec mandates presence of certain files in /etc which do not
> appear to be on several Linux machines that I've tried the tests
> out on. In some cases perhaps the files should not be required
> at all, in some cases (networking files) they would appear
> to need to be made conditional on the feature being configured.
I'm not convinced the LSB should mandate any config files in /etc what
so ever. Mandating the APIs for configuration information is sufficient,
and typing Linux to aprticular file formats forever seems like a poorly
thought out idea.
Erik
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