On 7/8/2014 6:53 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > That's not always true. > > Some configs that were under /etc on el6 must now reside under /usr on el7. > > Take modprobe blacklists for example. > > On el5 and el6 they are in/etc/modprobe.d/ > > On el7 they need to be in/usr/lib/modprobe.d/ > > If you install modprobe blacklists to the old location under el7 they > will not work. > > I'm sure there are other examples, this is just one example I've > happened to run into. this is insane. traditionally in Unix-like systems, /usr is supposed to be able to be read only and sharable between multiple systems, for instance in NFS boot scenarios. /var is specifically for host-specific complex configuration and status stuff like /var/logs /var/state /var/run and so forth. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast