Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp

[Carlos Silva <r3pek@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 01:30 +0100, Malte S. Stretz wrote:
> On Monday 21 March 2005 01:02 CET Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:49:05 +0000 Gustavo Adolfo Silva Ribeiro
> >
> > Felisberto <humpback@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > | Right now ftpd builds create /home/ftp directory as this will be the
> > | home of the anonymous account home. One user opened a bug and he says
> > | that the proper place would be /var/ftp to go with /var/www . What do
> > | you guys think?
> >
> > System dependent. If ftp directories are machine-local, /var. If they're
> > shared across many machines, /home. If your sysadmin is a two dollar
> > redhat crack monkey, /srv.
> 
> You mean a two dollar redhat crack monkey who read the FHS 2.3? ;~)
> 
> Having a /srv around might feel funny in the first place, but it indeed 
> makes sense if you got used to it.  Pretty nice to find the important 
> things to backup for example (when I'm low on backup space I don't want to 
> save the users' pr0n).
> 
> I think the discussion whether Gentoo wants to adopt /srv or not died away 
> without a conclusion about half a year ago.

Well, it's a fact that the two big distros for servers (RHAS3 and SLES9)
use /srv. They both had to get that ideia from somewhere...

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