seth vidal wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:29 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:Matthew Miller wrote:Transient and not backed up? What about /var/mail, /var/spool/cron and /var/log?On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:19:43AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:As a sysadmin /srv is a useful thing - it's what most sysadmins do anyway - create a top level path where they mount the large, local disks and put all their data. So they know on every system if they hit /etc and /srv with the backups they'll have what they should be worried about. All admins may not call it /srv but they do something like it: /fs, /local, /data, /srv it's all the same result. so while your argument for not using it in the distro is fine -the reality is that this is what is actually done by sysadmins all over the world.+1 Thank you Seth. /var is transient data. There should be nothing there that needs backups. And users shouldn't look there for files they might edit.- /var/log - shouldn't matter - it's being sent to centralized log hosts which I've always had put files in /srv/logs - /var/mail has no data - all your mail should be in your central mail server and not in /var/mail but in another path /srv/mail or /srv/mqueue often - /var/spool/cron doesn't have any files in it b/c users are not allowed to add cron jobs except on highly specific systems. Moreover, if you're adding root or system-controlled cron jobs they should go in /etc/cron.d or in the /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, etc directories. never in /var/spool/cron and NEVER add by such a cumbersome tool as cron -e
Not everyone in the world sets things up like you do. The FHS explicitly sets these paths for these purposes.
rob
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