Re: Jessie goals, and /etc/host.conf

On May 15, 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:26:26PM -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote: > > I wrote a note to my LUG about the use of /etc/hosts to > > lessen the chance of visiting some types of web sites, and > > got a reply saying that /etc/host.conf

Jessie goals, and /etc/host.conf

I wrote a note to my LUG about the use of /etc/hosts to lessen the chance of visiting some types of web sites, and got a reply saying that /etc/host.conf was deprecated. And a long time ago. I'm running unstable, surely if /etc/host.conf was deprecated I would have seen a note about it in the

Re: options: was Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

I'm a UN*X dinosaur. I started using UN*X in 1984. I don't like this idea of folding /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin into /usr/bin. I think the reasons to segregate /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and anything in /usr/local/* still exist today. I want more segregation, not less. Actually, I've wante