-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans Witvliet wrote:

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:15 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:

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Hans Witvliet wrote:

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The warning reminded me that by default, the mysql-data resided under /var/lib/mysql/

Which makes me wonder, according to the FSH, data belonging to servers/services should reside under /srv, just like www, ftp, tftp.... Good point. OTOH, which distributions use /srv/mysql? /var/lib/mysql seems to be quite widely used. Anyway, please put this request to bugzilla.novell.com and assign to mmarek@suse.de.

I don't think any other distribution currently uses /srv although it's defined as the standard in FHS [1] (but most distributions don't care about LSB anyway, be it Redhat, Gentoo or - most notably - Debian) [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Debian and Gentoo both have /var/www, which is definitely a very bad choice wrt standards as it's just nowhere in the FHS (/var/lib/www would have been "ok" IMO).

Done: #188713

Certainly, it can be done manually afterwards. But when working for a department who is claiming to follow international standards and so, one finds lots of sysadmins unwilling, ignorant or just plain lazy to do so.

There isn't really a standard for that. Even if you consider the FHS, here: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYS... I think it's still a bit vague. And, as said, not many distributions care a lot about FHS and LSB :\

Better make it default under /srv I would suggest /srv/mysql (obvious)

Right, would make sense. OTOH, what's the default directory being set by MySQL builds ? At first glance, /srv/mysql would make sense, but if SUSE Linux is the only distribution on the planet that uses /srv/mysql and all the others use /var/lib/mysql (and so do the mysql.com builds), then I'm not sure it would be such a good idea... cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEoaCkr3NMWliFcXcRAgnSAJwJF5/mrfCfkkq3IC2F649aeHR8KACgmAB+ 6hfWwRp8B8TE31pR3lcZvEk= =W+38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory-help@opensuse.org

Hi, houghi schrieb:

Would a symlink from /var/lib/mysql to /srv/mysql work? Or would there be issues with some things not working, because it is a symlink?

IMHO compatibility symlinks are "ugly" and should be avoided where possible. Changing the working directory of software packages is a very difficult thing. It has the potential to upset quite a lot of users. What some of you might possibly know that there are many rumours out there that "SUSE uses different directory layouts than the rest of the world and moves config files and working directories around all the time". This is really one of the typical things that non-SUSE users frequently say about SUSE. With that in mind, I propose that nothing is changed unless the current solution really *violates* the FHS, which I doubt. Moving things around just because the new solution would comply a little bit better should be avoided if the current solution is also compliant. Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory-help@opensuse.org