Re: location of the configuration files

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>

From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, "Kevin Brown" <kevin@sysexperts.com>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-13T03:08:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 20:37, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > 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

> No [snip] - /usr/local/etc.  Why can't the Linux community respect
> history!!!!

> It is the ONE TRUE PLACE [snip]

If PostgreSQL is supported as a part of the base operating system in a Linux 
distribution, and that distribution wishes to be Linux Standards Base 
compliant (most do), then PostgreSQL cannot go in /usr/local -- period.

IDIC at work.
-- 
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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