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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.041636.29588@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 14 Dec 90 04:16:36 GMT
References: <1990Dec07.214859.641@digibd.com> <1990Dec9.143700.9682@pegasus.com> <1990Dec12.192318.19658@digibd.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1990Dec12.192318.19658@digibd.com> by rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey):
+---------------
| In article <1990Dec9.143700.9682@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
| >>	You're waiting for SVR4, it'll be a MAJOR change from what you're
| >>	used to and there is ALOT of new things to learn for system admin's
| >>	and advanced users. If you think sysadmsh was "fun", wait till you
| >>	see R4's equiv! Filesystem reorganization will be another fun change!
| >
| >Symlinks make the reorganization a non-issue.
| 
| 	I still have some nightmares of SunOS systems with the symlinks
| 	from hell... The file reorganization will break many a code
| 	that assumes the classic /,/bin,/etc,/usr/bin,/usr/lib,/usr/spool
| 	configuration. Making 1,000 symlinks will make things worse
| 	not better...
+---------------

Files in strange places is a *minor* problem.  Not only have I used SunOS 4.1
(not to mention DG/UX, which also has SVR4/SunOS filesystem layout), but after
coping with another SCO "UNIX" difference from UNIX I'm used to files not
being where I expect.  You see, SCO hasn't figured out yet that /etc is for
system maintenance commands; somehow, they usually end up in /bin, while basic
system tools end up in /usr/bin.  This results in hackery in SCO "UNIX" to make
sure /usr is mounted in single-user mode (as we receive it, it's configured to
create a separate /usr filesystem), since SCO decided not to fix the real
problem but to hack around it instead....

++Brandon
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