On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 06:40:00PM -0700, Austin Schutz wrote:
> There's no way anyone is going to move really basic stuff like
> inetd.conf or passwd out of /etc. Too many preexisting things depend on
> their locations.
Except for Sun.
% uname -sr
SunOS 5.5.1
% ls -l /etc/inetd.conf /etc/inet
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 5 1998 /etc/inetd.conf -> ./inet/inetd.conf
/etc/inet:
total 32
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 4264 Apr 19 11:08 hosts
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 4728 Feb 9 17:37 inetd.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 592 Aug 5 1998 netmasks
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 372 Aug 5 1998 networks
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 499 May 2 1996 protocols
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 2158 Feb 9 17:37 services
Sun also takes it further... /usr/dt/* is for system default stuff,
the same files in /etc/dt/* override the defaults in /usr/dt/*. The same
is true for openwin. This is actually kinda nice because it means that
when patches go in to fix the bad defaults in /usr/dt/*, your local
customizations do not get clobbered.
Mike
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