Re: [TCLUG:522] Newbie alert!

["Clark Whiting" <crwhiting@hotmail.com>]

Consider UNIX as a networking environment that is designed to have 
anywhere from 1-100 people logged into it and working at the same time 
-- even though you have a version running on your desk at home - this is 
what it was designed to do. It is the most powerful and versital 
operating system with the most efficient multitasking, and it's been 
around for 30 years! Keeping this in mind, you don't want to throw all 
of the executables needed by all these people into one directory, or all 
of your libraries and sharable codes into a single directory (like some 
operating systems that we won't mention here). Therefore, it is 
imperative that an efficient and common sense scheme is devised to store 
these thousands of files and exec's. Most UNIX platforms (and this is 
entirely configurable by the system administrator -- namely you)  have 
the following scheme for storing and installing files:

For system and OS files/exec's
    /bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/sbin

For installed software
    /opt:/usr:/usr/local

For user installed software
    /usr/local

Decide how you want to set up your machine and stick to that schema. 
Until you do become a UNIX "guru", it is a good idea to stick to the 
established methods.



>
>On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
>
>> One of the confusing things is that UNIX doesn't seem to have a 
consistent 
>> scheme for storing and running applications. That's whats confusing 
me at 
>> any rate.  One person says use /opt another uses /usr/local another 
uses 
>> /usr/share.
>
>Yes -- this file system is one of the many things that makes Unix 
better.
>When you figure out why or how, consider yourself a guru.
>
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>Christopher Reid Palmer : jaymz@acm.cs.umn.edu : innerFire on IRC 
(EFNet)


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