On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:45:58 +0800
>From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Subject: Re: 7.0 will not install
>
>> 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" -
>
>Whether you want to automount or use a standard NFS mount, /home is clearly
>the wrong place.
>
>Many's the time I've updated Apache on various systems that share /home.
>
>Fortunately, I twigged to the problem before it bit me.
>
>Similarly, /home is the wrong place for ftp; especially if you want to share
>/home but not the ftp tree.
>
>I've not quite decided about samba; it's probably wrong for that too.
Hmm.. I agree. /var/samba/shares anyone?
/var/smb/exports ?
Some ideas..
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