[OT] What Does "/etc" Stand For and Why?

[sparkes]

Brett Kirksey wrote:

>Here's a random question for you? What does etc in the name of the /etc directory stand for? The obvious answer would be "et cetera". But that doesn't make sense in itself
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yes it does ;-) 'et cetera' for things that don't fit elsewhere makes 
perfect sence ;-)

>Anyone have any good references on this?
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http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION

not on the historical choice of the path but the current linux 
filesystem hirearchy standard explaining what should go there (not all 
distro's follow this but etc is pretty standard in not containing binaries)

>Thanks
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sparkes

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