On Monday 01 Nov 2004 01:27, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
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
This is now getting silly not only have i lost my scsi drives cus someone decieded that the Advansys driver that had never missed a beat is borken the Nvidia stuff supplied is a complete waste of time i have had to chase around deleting all the so called nvidia drivers just to get the proper nvidia to install and run , Now the complete structure of sus of going down the pan . who the hell sticks applications in /usr/lib what is wrong with /opt itś a sign someone is trying to make yet another INCOMPATIBLE DISTRO . We still have this darn silly keyboard bug as well i see , I an in England there fore i need English keyboard settings now i have set everything up during the install and when running KDE for the English keyboard as in en-GB not en-US , So why is it that every single time i have to logout of KDE i have to re run yast when i log back in again to get the correct keyboard again is to get " when i press shift-2 and ' when i press the '@ key if i leave it i have to press shift-2 twice and get something sort of similar but in italic form that does not do the job and similar with the other key plus quite a few others this has been around since 9.0 it is about time it was cleared up get the apps out of /usr/lib please suse /opt is the place maybe a a very tight squeeze /usr/local but /usr/lib definatley NOT i may have to move to Slackware the way things are going .. Pete very dissapointed so far with 9.2 . -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp , Play time is over folks time for action approaches at an alarming pace the death knell for M$ Copr has been sounded . Termination time is around the corner ..