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From: Carlos Silva <r3pek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:47:54
Message-Id: 1111366020.13165.2.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp by "Malte S. Stretz"
1 On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 01:30 +0100, Malte S. Stretz wrote:
2 > On Monday 21 March 2005 01:02 CET Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:49:05 +0000 Gustavo Adolfo Silva Ribeiro
4 > >
5 > > Felisberto <humpback@g.o> wrote:
6 > > | Right now ftpd builds create /home/ftp directory as this will be the
7 > > | home of the anonymous account home. One user opened a bug and he says
8 > > | that the proper place would be /var/ftp to go with /var/www . What do
9 > > | you guys think?
10 > >
11 > > System dependent. If ftp directories are machine-local, /var. If they're
12 > > shared across many machines, /home. If your sysadmin is a two dollar
13 > > redhat crack monkey, /srv.
14 >
15 > You mean a two dollar redhat crack monkey who read the FHS 2.3? ;~)
16 >
17 > Having a /srv around might feel funny in the first place, but it indeed
18 > makes sense if you got used to it. Pretty nice to find the important
19 > things to backup for example (when I'm low on backup space I don't want to
20 > save the users' pr0n).
21 >
22 > I think the discussion whether Gentoo wants to adopt /srv or not died away
23 > without a conclusion about half a year ago.
24
25 Well, it's a fact that the two big distros for servers (RHAS3 and SLES9)
26 use /srv. They both had to get that ideia from somewhere...
27
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Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp Stuart Longland <stuartl@××××××××××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp Juergen Hoetzel <gentoo@×××××××.info>