1 Nov
2004
1 Nov
'04
01:27
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
They are doing exactly what I did when I created the /data directory for my user/server data files. IMHO the existing directory structure really didn't have a good place to put a server's data files. I'll probably use this in the future. Jeff