From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2L0lrvs005445 for <gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org>; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:47:54 GMT Received: from a81-84-28-249.netcabo.pt ([81.84.28.249] helo=r3pek.homelinux.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDB5F-0001XL-16 for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:47:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 16314 invoked by uid 210); 21 Mar 2005 00:47:51 +0000 Received: from 192.168.0.93 by gateway (envelope-from <r3pek@gentoo.org>, uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (spamassassin: 2.64. perlscan: 1.23st. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.93):. Processed in 0.027699 secs); 21 Mar 2005 00:47:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.93?) (192.168.0.93) by a81-84-28-249.netcabo.pt with SMTP; 21 Mar 2005 00:47:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp From: Carlos Silva <r3pek@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200503210130.44843@malte.stretz.eu.org> References: <20050320234905.77953d16@localhost> <20050321000200.662c7391@snowdrop> <200503210130.44843@malte.stretz.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:47:00 +0000 Message-Id: <1111366020.13165.2.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>, <mailto:gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org>, <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c907c945-309b-4537-90cf-0a10035b8cbf X-Archives-Hash: 82ce74ec26e04d94524281d75f36edb3 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... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list