Thus spake Torsten Landschoff (torsten@debian.org): > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 07:16:54PM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > > like you've probably read, the new FHS wants the root directories for www, > > anonymous ftp and DNS moved out of /home, where many Linux distributions > > used to keep it. > Good. While we're at this FHS stuff, can anyone tell me why Debian (at least potato) still has the /floppy and /cdrom mount points instead of /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom, as the FHS prescribes? And what about /var/state? According to the FHS, it shouldn't be used, while in potato and woody, it is. > I think it would be nice to group ftp and http access into /var/lib > or /var/local because I don't think that www and ftp really fit into > the /var subdirectories (lib, local, www!?) > Just an idea. What do others think? According to the FHS, http and ftp data should _not_ go into /var. The FHS states: | /var contains variable data files. This includes spool directories and | files, administrative and logging data, and transient and temporary | files. [...] | Applications should generally not add directories to the top level of | /var. Such directories should only be added if they have some | system-wide implication, and in consultation with the FHS mailing list. (FHS 2.1, chapter 5) IMO, ftp and http data do not match this description at all. Furthermore, I can't find anything in the FHS about this data not being allowed in /home, but I agree it isn't the nicest place to put it. I personally keep this kind of data (ftp, http, public nfs and smb exports) in a top-level dir /exports (with subdirs ftp, http, etc.). But this, too, isn't allowed by the FHS, I am afraid. :-(( -- Kind regards, +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bas Zoetekouw | ``Si l'on sait exactement | |--------------------------------| ce que l'on va faire, | | bas@A-Es2.uu.nl | a quoi bon le faire?'' | | zoetekw@phys.uu.nl | Pablo Picasso | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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