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["Robert Helgesson" <rycee AT home.se>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 20:06:26 +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i just read through all of the replies to the fhs stuff and here is what
> seems to be the general consensus:
> /media/cdrom vs. /mnt/cdrom:
> /mnt/cdrom, reject /media
> 
> /srv:
> reject
> 
> If no one complains about that i will forward this result to the
> fhs-discuss list tomorrow evening.

I agree with this.

I do think it would be a good idea to have standardized positions for
the standard server data directories, but putting it directly under /
would IMO be bad, somewhere under /var feels like a better choice.
Possibly /var/srv as has been suggested. The media dir feels very
superfluous, I think either of videos, music or of the actual physical
cd media, /mnt is well understood and perfectly fine.

Finally, I think it may be worth it to define some sort of standard on
how the content of the common server data dirs should be laid out. Just
saying /srv/www is where the web server data is going to be isn't of
much use I think.

For example, for the http data there could be a system for handling
virtual domains, cgi-bin directories and so on. Something like the
following perhaps.

/var/srv/www/
        localhost/              <= the default
                cgi-bin/
                dataroot/
        www.virtual-host.com/
                cgi-bin/
                errors/
                icons/
                dataroot/

Problem is, will this be flexible enough to work for everybody while
still allow sensible defaults for the web server configs?

Oh, and finally +1 on the /var/chroot dir.

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