On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:37:26AM +0200, MichaĆ Piotrowski wrote:
> By the way, maybe it would be good to think about the meaning of /srv
> existance? For seven years FHS requires that this directory exists
>
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE16A
> but "The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is
> unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be
> done" - so even the authors of the standard did not have anything to
> say about how this directory should be used. Is there a rational
> reason for the existence of this directory besides FHS conformance?
Yes. It's where to put non-transient service data that does not belong to a
user, and does not belong to a package.
+1 - I think /srv is a good dir to have in place to encourage good
practices for storing that kind of data.
-sv