On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:19:22PM +0800, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > As I read it, putting stuff there is absolutely not fine.
>
> Where do you read this?
>
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#FTN.AEN1192 explicitly
> says: "This is particularly important as these areas will often contain both
> files initially installed by the distributor, and those added by the
> administrator." which to me very much sounds like the distributor (=Debian
> here) can place directories there...
The problem is that people already put a lot of things under /srv and
therefore it is really hard to make sure you do not overwrite anything.
What do you do e.g. if the name of the directory you want to create
already exists as a file?
IMHO the only safe way to populate /srv is inside the Debian Installer
(and even then there can be issues when the user selects to mount a
pre-existing file system over /srv).
Gabor
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