[geeks] Mac definitions

Dr Robert Pasken rpasken at eas.slu.edu
Fri Jul 8 09:13:09 CDT 2011


On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Michael Parson wrote:

> My dislike of Ubuntu stems not as much from the Windowsishness of it
> all, but the fact that they do things like rename binaries.  I don't
> know how wide-spread it is, but the example that upset me was when
> a co-worker needed some help getting apache to do something, don't
> remember what it was, but after not being able to find the running httpd
> binary, we find that the running binary is named apache.  The config
> files aren't in /etc/httpd, they're in /etc/apache.  No where else have
> I seen this (except, maybe on Windows), everyone else leaves the name of
> the program alone, the difference is usually the install prefix, maybe
> an appending of a version number, but not a flat-out rename.
>


Kinda like Solaris-10 where the config files for apache are in 
/etc/apache?


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