[RFC] /var versus /srv

[Rob Crittenden]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:29 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:19:43AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>>>> As a sysadmin /srv is a useful thing - it's what most sysadmins do
>>>> anyway - create a top level path where they mount the large, local disks
>>>> and put all their data. So they know on every system if they hit /etc
>>>> and /srv with the backups they'll have what they should be worried
>>>> about. All admins may not call it /srv but they do something like
>>>> it: /fs, /local, /data, /srv
>>>>
>>>> it's all the same result.
>>>>
>>>> so while your argument for not using it in the distro is fine -the
>>>> reality is that this is what is actually done by sysadmins all over the
>>>> world.
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Thank you Seth.
>>>
>>> /var is transient data. There should be nothing there that needs backups.
>>> And users shouldn't look there for files they might edit.
>>>
>> Transient and not backed up? What about /var/mail, /var/spool/cron and 
>> /var/log?
> 
> - /var/log - shouldn't matter - it's being sent to centralized log hosts
> which I've always had put files in /srv/logs
> - /var/mail has no data - all your mail should be in your central mail
> server and not in /var/mail but in another path /srv/mail or /srv/mqueue
> often
> 
> - /var/spool/cron doesn't have any files in it b/c users are not allowed
> to add cron jobs except on highly specific systems. Moreover, if you're
> adding root or system-controlled cron jobs they should go in /etc/cron.d
> or in the /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, etc directories.
> 
> never in /var/spool/cron and NEVER add by such a cumbersome tool as cron
> -e

Not everyone in the world sets things up like you do. The FHS explicitly 
  sets these paths for these purposes.

rob
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