Re: CentOS for non-tech user

[Drew <drew.kay@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I really wish RH would hop on the /srv bus. The broad distinction is
> fairly easy to grasp: /var for variable data of general interest to
> the machine, /srv for stuff related to a specific service. In general,
> /var is machine-generated, /srv is person-generated.
>
> If you maintain it with $EDITOR and it's available with $DAEMON, it
> goes in /srv. (How's that for a stunningly broad generalization? :-)

It's not just RH/CentOS that are guilty. Last time I checked Debian
does this as well.

On my webserver I've just grown used to making up my own /srv/www
entry and symlinking /var/www to /srv/www so the system doesn't
complain when apache & related apps get updated.



-- 
Drew

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
--Marie Curie
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