[geeks] Mac definitions

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Dr Robert Pasken wrote:

> 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?

I've never used the vendor-supplied Apache on Solaris 10, but having
just checked one of my Solaris 10 hosts at work, that's annoying. At
least the binary is still named 'httpd' though.

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Michael Parson
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