{"id":2016,"date":"2010-01-19T09:23:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T09:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2010-01-19T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T09:23:28","slug":"whats-the-use-of-usrlocaletc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2010\/01\/19\/whats-the-use-of-usrlocaletc\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#39;s the use of \/usr\/local\/etc?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering why <code>\/usr\/local\/etc<\/code> isn&#8217;t used for storing local changes to system-wide configuration (which is in <code>\/etc\/<\/code>). Even after quickly reading through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pathname.com\/fhs\/pub\/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY\">FHS&#8217;s definition for the contents of it<\/a>, &#8220;Host-specific system configuration for local binaries&#8221;, I was convinced that the practice of adding local customizations directly to <code>\/etc<\/code> must be flawed.<\/p>\n<p>It was only after re-reading the definition with thought when the emphasis dawned on me: it is used for configuration of <em>local <strong>binaries<\/strong><\/em>, not for <em><strong>local configuration<\/strong> of binaries<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering why \/usr\/local\/etc isn&#8217;t used for storing local changes to system-wide configuration (which is in \/etc\/). Even after quickly reading through FHS&#8217;s definition for the contents of it, &#8220;Host-specific system configuration for local binaries&#8221;, I was convinced that the practice of adding local customizations directly to \/etc must be flawed. It was only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}