My preference is to put files that I create in /usr/local/etc, and then link them into /sbin and /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts as needed. That way when I reinstall, it's easy to wipe the disk and start over. All my customizations are in a separate tree. I also embed "how to install" instructions in the top of each script, since I rebuild systems amazingly frequently. for example: # to install: # ln -s /usr/local/etc/if-local /sbin/ifup-local # ln -s /usr/local/etc/if-local /sbin/ifdown-local # ln -s /usr/local/etc/if-local /etc/ppp/ip-up.local # ln -s /usr/local/etc/if-local /etc/ppp/ip-down.local and for scripts that end up going into /etc/init.d/, I make "install" a command, just like "start" and "stop". - Kevin On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:04:22 +0100, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Though /etc is no good place for executive scripts. > > Sorry, am I "hearing" you correctly? You don't think executable scripts > should live under /etc, just text based files with settings? > > Would you mind justifying that? All the Unix-like operating systems of > which I know put executable scripts in the /etc filesystem: in > particular, the two common init systems (SysV and BSD) rely on a large > number of executable scripts there. BSD init puts them directly in > /etc. > > Or do you just think that they should all be in subdirectories of /etc, > not in /etc itself? Fedora *nearly* does that (on my system, autofs > breaks that rule[1]), which is largely due to the preference of putting > stuff in subdirectories of /etc if the program is complicated enough to > need multiple files in /etc. Which *is* a good one: there's enough > under /etc as it is... > > But I thought that was just a side-effect, not something to be aimed at: > I don't think I've ever come across a rule which says "no executable > stuff in /etc" > > A few figures: > on a random AIX box: > /etc$ find . -type f -perm -1 2>/dev/null | wc -l > 162 > /etc$ ls -l |egrep ^-..x | wc -l > 27 > > on this Fedora box: > [james@howells etc]$ find . -type f -perm -1 2>/dev/null | wc -l > 493 > [james@howells etc]$ ls -l |egrep ^-..x | wc -l > 2 > > on a random SUSE box: > $ find . -type f -perm -1 2>/dev/null | wc -l > 124 > $ ls -l |egrep ^-..x | wc -l > 1 > > (Errm: the numbers are the numbers of executable files in the /etc > filesystem and directly in /etc, respectively...) > > Thanks, > > James. > > [1] And cdrecord.conf: I'm not sure why that has to be executable... > -- > E-mail address: james@ | When the revolution comes, we'll need a longer wall. > westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Tom De Mulder > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
