Status and outlook of LSB and FHS compliance of Fedora.

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:09:42AM +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> - exactly what services go in /srv? everything which is in /var now?

No. Things which do not belong in /var. Var is for transient variable data.
User-edited documents should live there. And neither should config files
or executable programs.

> - add another unclear partition (/srv) to decision making on
> partitioning

Anyone running a serious server probably wants this stuff on its own
partition or partitions anyway. Anyone not, probably doesn't. Easy.


> - there are a lot of books/howtos which reference /var. Many people are
> migrating to linux now. They read those, find it's different in reality,
> confusing.

Lots of books reference all sorts of weird and bad things.

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