Subject: Re: /var/cron -> /etc/cron
To: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@emsi.priv.at>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/15/1999 06:35:05
"Martin J. Laubach" <mjl@emsi.priv.at> wrote:
> | replying to. If we are going to go that far, what was the system
> | that Apollos(?) used to use with environment variables?
>
> Yup, Apollo Domain/OS has some magic in the symbolic link
> resolving code. You could make a link 'node_data/etc (yes,
> the apostrophe is part of the name), and it would resolve
> to node2AFB3_data/etc (or whatever the node id of this
> machine would be). This was heavily used for netbooting,
> by just having a bunch of generic links in /etc, referring
> to some appropriate subdirectory for that machine.
yeah, 'node_data was an interesting aberration but I think what the
original poster is referring to was the environment variable symbolic
links:
setenv SYSTYPE bsd4.3
/bin -> $(SYSTYPE)/bin -> /bsd4.3/bin
setenv SYSTYPE sys5.3
/bin -> $(SYSTYPE)/bin -> /sys5.3/bin