On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:45:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Richard Kreuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:24:07PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > > /var is for data that cannot be shared between different machines. > > > > /var/mail, /var/spool/news are shareable, no? > > > > The FHS states /var is for "variable" files. > > FHS != GNU Coding Standards. > > FHS finally discovered that they needed a place for shareable data, > and then broke the way to deal with it, by specifying a list of > directories in /var. That means that environments that want to manage > simple mount tables with what can be shared, and how, cannot do the > job adequately, because the shareable data is littered across several > locations.
I recently saw another proposal on the FHS mailinglist: /srv - data generated by users for the services the system offers It seemed that they agreed that is was right. Isn't this just a special case of /com and should they add /com instead? Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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