Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Drew wrote:

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The other thing is that ubuntu does some things I consider odd, and puts some things in odd places (say, not having your web stuff under /var/www, etc).

That may be because they're aiming for compliance with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard ( http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ ). Web related stuff goes under /srv/www.

I really wish RH would hop on the /srv bus. The broad distinction is fairly easy to grasp: /var for variable data of general interest to the machine, /srv for stuff related to a specific service. In general, /var is machine-generated, /srv is person-generated.

If you maintain it with $EDITOR and it's available with $DAEMON, it goes in /srv. (How's that for a stunningly broad generalization? :-)