[GLLUG] usr

[Ben Pfaff]

Marshal Newrock <marshal at simons-rock.edu> writes:

> Now if only I could figure out why they called the directory with all the
> config files "etc" instead of something like "conf".

Putting only configuration files in /etc seems to be a fairly
modern trend.  Older Unix systems had random binaries and other
cruft in /etc.
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Ben Pfaff 
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