[Cumbria] Re: All that flamefestery

Michael Saunders cumbria at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun Jan 5 22:42:01 2003


On 5 Jan 2003, Chris Plant wrote:

> Maybe its because its similar enough to redhat for me to expect it to be
> as sane as redhat.

Sane? Want to explain why RH puts the outgoing webserver files in /var? :)

>From the FHS:

"/var contains variable data files.  This includes spool directories and
files, administrative and logging data, and transient and temporary
files."

Putting it in /home/httpd always seemed nicer, IMHO.

Mike

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