>>>>> "PA" == Paul Almquist <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: PA> What are your thoughts on where it should be placed? Well, at my site, /usr/local is either read-only NFS mounted from a central server or rsync'ed daily from a central server. It's used for software that isn't packaged via RPM. Whatever I put into my repositories and install with yum is a properly integrated part of the OS, and so belongs in /usr. - J<