Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

[Christopher Yeoh]

At 2002/8/26 13:52+1000  Michael James writes:
> 
> One distiction that is still not clear to me
>  is that between /opt and /usr/local.

/usr/local is for programs that sysadmin compiles and installs locally.
/opt is where ISV's (and more generally people who package stuff
that is not shipped with the distribution) install their files.

> Didn't see any guideline to where html pages for a web server
>  should be put either.  /home/www ?

looks like /srv (eg /srv/ftp, /srv/www) will probably go in the next
release.

Chris
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