[RFC] /var versus /srv

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 17:38 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Ven 21 septembre 2007 16:49, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
> 
> >>From the FHS:
> > Chapter 5. The /var Hierarchy
> > Purpose
> > /var contains variable data files. This includes spool directories and
> > files, administrative and logging data, and transient and temporary
> > files.
> 
> And some transient files like spools may be backed up, but /var is not
> for long-term data

B******t. :-)
2 Directory Servers put data in there:
/var/lib/dirsrv
/var/lib/ldap
IIRC also MySQL and PostsgreSQL put data under /var/lib

I guess you care about your databases contents, do you? :-)