LB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was > wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data > to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating > /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me with the idea behind > this ? This reduces the possibility of people losing their data during an upgrade. If you portupgrade (or use any other system) to upgrade to a newer version of Apache, data-dist will be overwritten with the new documentation that comes with the new version of Apache. data will not be touched. As a result, if you left data as a symlink to data-dist, it still works and shows you the most updated documentation. However, if relink data to a different directory, or replace the symlink with a real directory with your site in it, the upgrade doesn't obliterate your data. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
