From: Brian McCauley (mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk)
Date: 05/28/93


From: mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley)
Subject: /etc vs. /etc/inet (was: Point me to latest tcp-ip FAQ)
Date: 28 May 1993 18:24:34 GMT

In article <1993May27.174854.9495@spuddy.uucp>, mitch@spuddy.uucp (Mitchum Dsouza) writes:
>> The problem is I have a "hosts" file in /etc and /etc/inet.
>> This is true for rc.local, rc.net, etc... Where are the files
>> supposed to be in .99-6 so I can get rid of redundant copies.
>
> It actually all depends on what version of the shared library libc you are
> running.
>
> Look also in you /usr/include/paths.h and see what __PATH_ETC_INET is defined
> to.
What I advise in the lpd-FAQ is

Get rid of all your exisitng symlinks between /etc/* and /etc/inet/*

mv /etc/inet/* /etc/
rmdir /etc/inet
ln -s . /etc/inet

After tis you can ignore the distiction.

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