2009/10/9 vijay shanker <vijaydshanker at gmail.com> > Hi Linux geeks, > > I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved > from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux > distro is good. > > I am not able to understand what is the point of having scattered folders > for apache server installation. > > when i see the /etc/httpd folder; it has only conf folder and links to > logs, module and , run. As i have been working on Windows where all these > files are stored in a single installation folder. > > So, this makes me quite confused to start with. > > Can anyone tell me what is the idea behind using such a installation > pattern. > > Now i am going to install java, I have two options via RPM and other is > extracting the distro and use it. i have a feeling if i use first option, > all the folders like jre and jdk will be palced any where. Not to be found. > > Please tell me or point to any relevant link. so i can go ahead without any > doubt over this issue. > rpm -ql <package name> will tell you were the package's files are rpm -ql <package name> | grep conf will show only those files having 'conf' in their names. * for jdk, i use the .bin, not the .rpm. (but i'm only interested in plugin) * docs are everywhere but you can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard -- Linux counter #213090 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091009/8487fbe9/attachment-0004.html>