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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: File hierarchy (was Re: Linux or FreeBSD) Date: 19 Sep 1995 08:08:58 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <43ltqq$3k1@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <43h7mv$c0@lugnut.stu.rpi.edu> <43hs27$8oc@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <43klfh$2sg@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: parker.eecs.berkeley.edu In article <43klfh$2sg@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >...and to add one more point: one thing i've probably liked most on >(4.4)BSD's hierarchy is that there are no bloody binaries under /etc. >(Ok, a symlink to rmt(8) which is needed to satisfy the rmt "proto- >col".) Just so there's no misunderstanding: The Linux File System Layout Standard (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/fsstnd/) doesn't allow binaries in /etc either. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu