[svlug] RHL 5.2

[Jonathan Sergent]

In message <19981115032156.D8042 at hugin.imat.com>, Rick Moen writes:
 ] 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).

The original post was also complaining about /var/log/httpd/*_log,
/etc/httpd/conf/*.conf, /usr/sbin/httpd, /usr/lib/apache/*.so, and
such.  I think those locations _are_ FHS-justifiable.  The /home/httpd
location is neither here nor there with regards to FHS, as it's not
something they felt the need to standardize.  I cannot see where in
the FHS it says that them putting this stuff in /home/httpd violates
the spec, and what directory under /var the spec says it would be okay
to put it into.  I'm telling you that this very topic came up on the
fhs-discuss mailing list some time ago and I'm 99% sure (there's no
archive) that the conclusion was that there was no FHS-compliant
one place to put it, and that you could put it whereever you wanted
to.

So just where under /var do you want to put it?

As to whether the "system" HTML tree is "system" data, that's a moot
point for most people running web servers, as they remove the "default"
content and put their own there, and maintain it regularly.

They do put the Apache manual in /home/httpd/html; it might make more
sense to put that in /usr/doc/apache-*/manual and add an Alias 
directive for it...


--jss.

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