longish quote from FHS-2.1, section 4.5: "4.5 /usr/local : Local hierarchy The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. /usr/local - Local hierarchy | |-- bin Local binaries |-- games Local game binaries |-- include Local C header files |-- lib Local libraries |-- sbin Local system binaries |-- share Local architecture-independent hierarchy |-- src Local source code This directory should always be empty after first installing a FHS-compliant system. No exceptions to this rule should be made other than the listed directory stubs. Locally installed software should be placed within /usr/local rather than /usr unless it is being installed to replace or upgrade software in /usr. Note that software placed in / or /usr may be overwritten by system upgrades (though we recommend that distributions do not overwrite data in /etc under these circumstances). For this reason, local software should not be placed outside of /usr/local without good reason." and from the main part of Section 4: "4. The /usr Hierarchy /usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various hosts running FHS-compliant and should not be written to. Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere." Note that 6.4 went gold before this spec was released. Question is, what's all this mean? FTP trees are definatly local. FTP is also often written to. I personally always re-locate it to /home/ftp because /home is always on a seperate partition for me and i install stuff i want to live through upgrades there. maybe FTP should belong in /home, since there's actually an FTP user, and this is the tree used for this anonymouse users access? anyway, just some thoughts. -- Rocky McGaugh rmcgaugh@atipa.com On Thu, 25 May 2000, Keith Warno wrote:
I honestly do not know what the "correct" location -- if there is such a thing -- is. For as long as I've been using SuSE (since 5.3? mebbe earlier) it's been in /usr/local/ftp. I'm assuming it's in this location because the ftp user isn't a "real" user; /home/ is generally where "real" users live.
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