Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Christofer. I was thinking about putting it in /usr/bin. Is > that a good choice? John Summerfied replied: > No. Read your manuals:-) Paul replied: > Sure! Could you please suggest to me the relevant documentation? I don't think you really got a good answer to that one, Paul. There's a *lot* of documentation out there, and some of the best documentation for that particular question is for old versions of Red Hat Linux. I'd firstly point you to http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ , the File Hierarchy Standard. I'd say that reading the whole lot is worthwhile: it clarifies a lot about the way a Linux installation works, and why files go where they do. If you don't want to do that, the /usr/local section *is* worth reading. As for the old documentation, http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6.1-Manual/ref-guide/ch-sysadmin.html#S3-SYSADMIN-USR-LOCAL (through to the end) is still 100% accurate, apart from some of the subdirectories of /var having changed or not necessarily being there (they never were). And three fairly obvious changes: * The File Hierarchy Standard has replaced FSSTND * yum / yumex / etc has replaced Gnome-RPM * Fedora and RHEL have replaced Red Hat Linux! Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | That brought a lump to the eye and a tear to the @westexe.demon.co.uk | throat. | -- "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue", BBC Radio 4
