Re: Samba update moved my shares (again)
On (23/04/05 20:56), Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:11:58 +0100
> Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > This is the source of your problem /var is used by the system when
> > installing and configuring packages, it is NOT for data (other than
> > logfiles) - put all your data under /home.
>
> OK, if that's the case, then why is it moving my shares into /var/lib?
> If /var doesn't imply dynamic data, /lib definitely doesn't. Note that
> apache and mysql also puts their data in /var by default, which has
> always seemed perfectly reasonable.
>
> The point is, samba should respect where I choose to put my files, and
> it certainly should not delete users from my system without asking me!
> In my case, it wouldn't hurt anything to just let the shares be in
> /var/lib, because all of /var is on a single partition. It's the
> principle of the thing that's bugging me...
There was some follow up to this and I was wrong to the extent that some
applications place data files in var by default. However, there do seem
to be issues relating to which directories in /var are shareable.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
Regards
Clive
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