Origin of directory /usr/slocal?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Christopher Linn wrote:

> I could not help but notice (at least in the solaris7/x86 port) the existance
> of /usr/slocal; what is the origin/purpose of this dir, and what conditions/
> restrictions on what goes in there?

This would have to be my fault ... where are you seeing this though?  When
I first started working here, my predecessor's had one helluva mess as far
as /usr/local was concerned ... to clean it up, we adopted a /usr/slocal
directory to put everything installed locally that was/is common across
all our servers (using rdist to sync things up), while /usr/local is
server dependent stuff ...

Curious as to where that creeped into one of my patches though :(  

Sorry about that ...


Marc G. Fournier                                 marc.fournier at acadiau.ca
Senior Systems Administrator                            Acadia University

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