On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 07:47:43PM +0900, Joel wrote: > > (And this is why there's /srv, by the way. /var/www is icky.) > Why do you think so? For the same reason we don't put user files in /var/home. See the rationale for /var in the FHS: /var contains variable data files. This includes spool directories and files, administrative and logging data, and transient and temporary files. Web server content is generally none of these. Often, it's static, important user data. The FHS defines /var/www as specifically for "WWW proxy or cache data". Really, anything a normal user might want to get at with a text editor oughtn't be in /var. Or to put it in a way that's relevant to this thread :) anything that's vital to preserve across upgrades. (Old logs are nice, but not usually vital -- if they *are*, better to write them to a log server which would store them somewhere safe.) Things that aren't quite perfect I can work around: I deliver mail to maildir in users' home directories, avoiding problems with /var/mail. And that pretty much leaves user crontabs as an annoyance. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 74 degrees Fahrenheit.
