Re: location of the configuration files

> Okay, here's one: most Unix systems store all of the configuration
> files in a well known directory: /etc. These days it's a hierarchy of
> directories with /etc as the root of the hierarchy. When an
> administrator is looking for configuration files, the first place he's
> going to look is in /etc and its subdirectories. After that, he's
> forced to look through the startup scripts to figure out where things
> are located. And if those aren't revealing, then he has to read
> manpages and hope they're actually useful. :-) And if that doesn't
> work, then he has to resort to tricks like doing "strings" on the
> binaries (he doesn't necessarily have access to the sources that the
> binaries were compiled from, which is all that matters here).

No goddammit - /usr/local/etc. Why can't the Linux community respect
history!!!!

It is the ONE TRUE PLACE dammit!!!

Chris

(btw, there is humour + seriousness in above post...)