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- From: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch>
- Subject: Re: [MINTOS] looking for data (was: Re: standard paths)
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 12:19:42 +0100 (MET)
- In-Reply-To: <s2_l0i3cing@moacs11> from "Waldi Ravens" at Jan 19, 94 01:02:20 am
-
- Hi,
-
- > > no, the name is quite well chosen, my NeXT has a similar file
- > > (/etc/hostconfig). This one sets things like IP number, hostname and other
- > > network related stuff...
- >
- > I respectfully disagree. The hostconfig file on your NeXT is not at all
- > similar to the proposed host.cnf on the Atari. The host.cnf file could
- > contain just any kind of data needed by any kind of program. It may
- > contain lines like:
- >
- > MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/gem/man
- > GXXINC=/usr/g++include
- > EXINIT=set lines=60 scroll=40 ai eb sm mo
-
- these are environment variables and should not be set globally. Every
- user should defines these in his .cshrc or whatever his shell uses.
- host.cnf should IMHO only define things that are really host dependant
- (like hostname and IP numbers...)
-
- christian
-