[svlug] RHL 5.2

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jonathan Sergent (sergent at io.com):

> In message <4.1.19981113112516.00a4b760 at mail.itrade.net>, Walter Reed writes:
>  ] The other minor nit I have with RedHat is the philosophy behind how 
>  ] software is installed. Check out Apache, which ends up with parts 
>  ] all over the system.  /etc/httpd, /home/httpd, /usr/sbin, 
>  ] /var/log/httpd, /usr/lib/apache, etc.  This is as bad or worse 
>  ] than a Windows program. I'm kind of at a loss trying to understand 
>  ] why RedHat would move SO far from the standard Apache installation.
> 
> Standards, actually... FHS.

Nothing in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard even remotely suggests 
putting the system HTML tree under /home (or even mentions that tree,
for that matter.)  The notion that it's the httpd "user's" home directory 
is pretty ridiculous.  (Does that "user" get a public_html subtree and
mail spool, too?)

That directory branch would be classified per FHS as shareable and 
(arguably) variable.  If you consider it to be essentially "system 
configuration" files, logic might thus suggest under /etc or /usr/local/etc.
That is what I do, although it'd actually probably have been more FHS-like
to put it under /var.

FHS compliance, you say?  Then why isn't the RPM database under /var/state,
as FHS 2.0 suggests?
 
> Whether you like the FHS or not is independent of whether you think
> Red Hat is implenting it correctly.  My contention is that they are,
> in fact, implementing it correctly, and I don't think you can blame them
> for following the relevant standard on the subject.

I think their FHS compliance is better than most, but not such that
it may be used as a hand-wave to excuse some obvious Redhat-isms.

-- 
Cheers,                Linux:  It is now safe to turn on your computer.
Rick Moen
rick (at) hugin.imat.com

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