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Re: Comments on rc-athena package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Feb 4 17:46:52 1996
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 04 Feb 96 17:38:44 -0500.
<199602042238.RAA01450@harlie.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 96 17:46:23 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Erik wrote:
>> I'm also unconvinced that rc.athena should be in /etc/athena. It
>> (or at least a symlink to it) really belongs in /etc/rc.d/rc.athena.
I don't agree; /etc/rc.d is for startup files shipped with the system,
and /etc/athena is for Athena dreck. Whole Athena-specific files
generally do not belong in /etc, although existing files in /etc do
need to be modified for Athena software.
> Hm. If we eventually move to syspack, it would probably be better to
> have it as a symlink from rc.d to athena. I'm again open to
> suggestion on this. I'm not sure how much to make things syspacklike
> while we stick with this Slackware style install.
/etc/athena and /bin/athena should not live on system packs; they are
intended to be local. Certainly, /etc/athena can't because of
/etc/athena/srvtab.
