On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:45 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > i agree with you about /srv, but not with the above. do you have any > system with real users? why don't you allow cron jobs for normal users??? It's important to take this discussion in context with FHS and their intended audience and machines for their intended purposes. For the most part, FHS discusses /srv in the context of machines that act as servers. As with machines that act as servers, multi-user desktops should keep their data together. In this case, people's data should be kept together. Instead of in /src, however, mail and cron information should be placed inside their $HOME directories. What does FHS say about multi-user systems? The point is to make backing up machines easier by finding one common point for each service (whether it's mail, web or multi-user desktop). Keeping some things in /var means you either have to know which subdirectories in /var to back-up AS WELL AS user home directories, or you back up the whole /var directory, unneeded data and all. So again, it's important to separate files used by the system and files used by the services, and it would go a long way for systems administration to group them together. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
