[svlug] RHL 5.2

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jonathan Sergent (sergent at io.com):

> Under this interpretation you could put home directories there too.

You might except that, as the FHS document acknowledges, the
/home tree exists specifically for that.

> Are the web pages system data or user data?  This seems to be our
> disagreement.

The _system_ html tree plainly is not user data.  Red Hat's putting
it under /home/httpd makes no more sense than would putting the mail
spool under /home/mta.

> On some systems, the web pages probably are system data because 
> the admin installs apache but never does anything with it.  

Excuse me, but I believe that's what I just got through saying
in my previous message.

> This doesn't mean /home/httpd makes sense for you, but I think that 
> your situation is not as common among web servers as the larger 
> distributed environment where it makes sense (since you have an 
> automounter, etc. in /home already), or the dedicated web server 
> where it makes sense.

The question was not whether _my_ HTML files are essentially
static.   (I used to mistakenly think they would be.)  The 
question was whether /home/httpd (1) makes sense, and -- more to
the immediate point --(2) is justifiable per the FHS as you claimed.

I was saying that your claim about FHS in that particular is incorrect,
and (further) that this particular Redhat-ism is especially absurd.

> Also, it's easy enough to reconfigure that it's sort of a moot 
> point...

You are trying to change the subject:  You made an assertion 
justifying Red Hat's Apache layout with a vague handwave about
their FHS compliance.  I have been attempting to point out to 
you that, to the contrary, Red Hat is acting _against_ the FHS in 
this area (among others).

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

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