On Sunday, 31 October 2004 17.42, Don Parris wrote:
I would like to ask if anyone is familiar with the new /srv
directory. Is that partt of the FSH/LSB or whatever standard the Linux vendors agreed to?
Yep, have a look at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYS...
I see it contains apache and somthing else. I was just curious as to hown new it is, and how it came to be. Does it help to provide better security? If so, how?
It has little to do with security, I think the main thing is that the data served by web servers, ftp servers and other such things don't fit very well into any of the other directories. /usr/local perhaps, or /var are the most likely candidates. The rationale doesn't really make it clear why they settled on creating a new root directory