[COLUG] /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d - Huh?

[tomjhanlon at earthlink.net]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com>
>Sent: Jan 11, 2007 7:50 AM
>To: Central OH Linux User Group <colug432 at colug.net>
>Subject: Re: [COLUG] /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d - Huh?
>
>Tom Hanlon wrote:
>
>> I think [/usr/local/...] is a mistake...
>
>_How_ or _why_ is it a mistake to follow FHS? 

Is it following FHS ??

http://www.openaddict.com/documents/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/etc.html

>From here I see the following...
>snip<
All scripts executed by the init system are located in /etc/init.d.
   The directories /etc/rc?.d (? = S, 0 .. 6) contain relative links to
   those scripts. These links are named S<2-digit-number><
   original-name> or K<2-digit-number><original-name>.

>snip<

Everything else that the build creates belongs in /usr/local
The startup script  I would argue belongs in /etc/ . 

I picture that part of the script that builds this package takes a file hierarchy and appends "PATH" (usr/local) to it. 

That should be appended to everythiing but the init script. I see this as an easy mistake to make. 

Isn't the rule something like...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained as incompetence " 

It JUST LOOKS like a simple mistake to me.  Then again perhaps I have become less inquisitive over the years ;-)

--
Tom

>
>Mike might already agree with you, but wants understanding 
>of how or why that is so, especially since 
>section 4.8.2.1. of version 2.3 of the FHS 
>(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.pdf)
>says that /usr/local/... is the _right_ place. 
>
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