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On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:47:00AM +0000, Carlos Silva wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 01:30 +0100, Malte S. Stretz wrote: |
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> > On Monday 21 March 2005 01:02 CET Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:49:05 +0000 Gustavo Adolfo Silva Ribeiro |
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> > > |
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> > > Felisberto <humpback@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > | Right now ftpd builds create /home/ftp directory as this will be the |
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> > > | home of the anonymous account home. One user opened a bug and he says |
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> > > | that the proper place would be /var/ftp to go with /var/www . What do |
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> > > | you guys think? |
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> > > |
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> > > System dependent. If ftp directories are machine-local, /var. If they're |
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> > > shared across many machines, /home. If your sysadmin is a two dollar |
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> > > redhat crack monkey, /srv. |
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> > |
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> > You mean a two dollar redhat crack monkey who read the FHS 2.3? ;~) |
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> > |
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> > Having a /srv around might feel funny in the first place, but it indeed |
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> > makes sense if you got used to it. Pretty nice to find the important |
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> > things to backup for example (when I'm low on backup space I don't want to |
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> > save the users' pr0n). |
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> > |
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> > I think the discussion whether Gentoo wants to adopt /srv or not died away |
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> > without a conclusion about half a year ago. |
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> Well, it's a fact that the two big distros for servers (RHAS3 and SLES9) |
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> use /srv. They both had to get that ideia from somewhere... |
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We have to blame SuSE for this. I run RedHats (so-called) Enterprise |
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Servers @work: |
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[root@mail root]# cat /etc/redhat-release |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon) |
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[root@mail root]# getent passwd ftp |
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ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin |
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Jürgen |
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