On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:41:59PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why was www and ftp moved to /var
> not that this is good or bad, simply asking for peace of mind
People wanted to automount /home, and with the docroots there it was
impossible. Secondly, according to the FHS standard
(http://www.pathname.com/fhs), "/home - User home directories" -
We don't think that document roots and ftp chroots fall under that
category (except for the small detail that the ftp daemon uses the
"ftp" user, but that isn't justification to live in the "user home
directories".
"/var - Variable data" - seems like a much better fit. During emails,
Daniel (the FHS maintainer) said that /var/www was probably a good
place for it to live (that is, he can't think of a better place). But
it is important to note that it isn't part of any official standard
yet.
Third, Debian puts the docroot in /var/www, so it has to be
the right thing to do. :) They still use /home/ftp, it seems...
Matt
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