[CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool

[John Hinton]

On 8/26/2011 12:13 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> Les,
>
> There are no /home directories on our servers.
>
> Data we create which is NOT essential for the operating system to
> function is usually not in an operating system directory.
>
> 'yum update' still works successfully.
>
> Paul.
>

All good that you customize your servers and that shows the beauty of 
our chosen OS. However, posting non-standard configs on this list shows 
up in google searches all over the place and has a good potential to 
confuse those that need some help. That's my point. Obviously your point 
is you can put them anywhere and your company has decided that is a best 
practice. I would never argue against your decision to do that.

Meanwhile, the original 'good suggestion' to use the /etc/httpd/conf.d 
directory for adding the patches has been totally watered down by this 
blathering (me included) which would best be under a totally different 
thread about how you can put stuff any where you want. Or, 'the merits 
of using a data directory'.

You don't teach? If you post, you teach... like it or not.

John Hinton