26 Apr
2005
26 Apr
'05
12:11 a.m.
James Clark wrote:
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=Tutorial&pageid=9
Might have some info.
From the article: "The /etc directory contains files and programs that are used for system configuration. Its name comes from the common abbreviation etc., for et cetera, meaning "and so on." This seems to come from the fact that on many systems, /etc contains files that don't seem to fit elsewhere." Seems a bit of a weird justification to me; all the files in /etc seem to fit there in my opinion, and it would probably be more logically called /config, but then I imagine it's been around for longer than I have, and its purpose may well have evolved?