[svlug] Debian/Red Hat

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:25:34 -0800 (PST) 
George Bonser <grep at shorelink.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, J C Lawrence wrote:

>>  Which one of the points about Debian that annoys the crap out of
>> me.  /etc is already too damned large.  RH, for all their other
>> faults, at least makes the tree deeper and narrower instead of
>> wider.

> When was the last time you looked at Debian? 

Few days ago on one of the boxes here at VA.  Not sure what release
level it was tho.

> Much of the stuff in /etc is moving to /etc/<package>/* to make it
> easier to find and because of the reason you mention ... 

This is good, tho I rather dislike the fact that somehow that
equated with /etc/apache rather than /etc/httpd or some other
genericy.

> /etc just has too many files in it.  

<nod>

> Also, more stuff is moving out of /usr/lib to
> /var/state/<package>. This is for FHS compliance. In time, the
> only thing in /usr/lib will be libs. Config info will live in
> /etc/<package>, state information will live in
> /var/state/<package>.

(X)Emacs of course strains this model.

Side item: A while ago I ran into a syslogd replacement that allowed
regex'es to be used as the pattern matches for determining what log
files would be written for a particular log entry, rather than the
normal MAIL/NEWS/DAEMON/SECURITY... breakout. but I lost it.
Anybody know where I might find that beast?

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