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Post #Apz5iManIvYER1ohe4 by [email protected] |
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why was it in /etc?? |
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Post #Apz5sc5wWOlzPWH2rA by [email protected] |
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@whitequark say what |
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Post #Apz5tUnl7huL53BneK by [email protected] |
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@whitequark chaotic neutral |
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Post #Apz61QBq9Xuj5vESqu by [email protected] |
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@whitequark dmr's machine had /etc and /bin on different disks and one of t… |
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Post #Apz61e1MjHqzzURITA by [email protected] |
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@whitequark back in the ancient days, there was quite a few shellscripts and ot… |
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Post #Apz6KJyDVBOlJ3s8Ke by [email protected] |
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@whitequark back in the good old times when people still adhered to the spirit … |
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Post #Apz6TABzE21baSWrsO by [email protected] |
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@whitequark In early Unix, /etc/ was littered with utilities. It was still the … |
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Post #Apz6WzIZfb7ExWQyY4 by [email protected] |
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@grumpybozo amazing |
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Post #Apz6csuSKxIIshxslk by [email protected] |
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@whitequark People keep telling me that “/etc” stands for “editable text … |
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Post #Apz6szkkf27Uju6jq4 by [email protected] |
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@whitequark cause etc meant etc back then |
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Post #Apz70ebdAY3pTAUf4K by [email protected] |
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@whitequark Maybe /bin was full.Probably needed it early boot.Long ago, /usr di… |
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Post #Apz7bERRPVW32LAY40 by [email protected] |
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@whitequark When file systems were very small root partitions often had very li… |
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Post #ApzKC504fumZv3hnJg by [email protected] |
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@whitequark Yeah there used to be a few ye olde binaries that lived in /etc. |
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Post #ApzStFXu8qAyiAcp16 by [email protected] |
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@grumpybozo @whitequark Wasn't glob the first system utility written in C i… |
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Post #ApzStFiBWcOpE3R22a by [email protected] |
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@elithebearded @grumpybozo in B, apparently |
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Post #ApzXcJiRsquGUbIo52 by [email protected] |
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@whitequark "give me all the files starting with this prefix" feels v… |
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Post #ApzYifHihhfh4xOIng by [email protected] |
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@whitequark I suspect that it was in /etc because it was normally run automatic… |
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Post #Aq0FC9ZvLdyVVPeKZ6 by [email protected] |
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@whitequark In early days /etc is pretty much /opt today |
