[KLUG Members] FHS postmortem

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:46:47 -0500, Mike Williams wrote:

>....one more option regarding /srv occurred to me.  To prevent web site
>files from being changed if the web server gets compromised....

But none of this is "built in" to the standard. Any web server admin can do 
this today if desired, using the older (/var/www) or even older (/home/httpd)
constructs for providing http (or any other) service.

The text of the standard itself is rather vague on this topic, and admits that
specification below the top level is undefined. This sort of thing is often 
symptomatic of a standards group that is trying to lead, not consolidate. IMO
no good will come of this aspect of FHS by itself.

It would seem the REAL value of things like FHS is to provide a framework for 
partitioning all activity in some useful ways. I can understand that putting 
all things being served (in general) to a general audience is a laudable goal, 
and moving those things from /var seems lik an improvement for logical pur-
poses, less so for some of the more pragmatic motives that have been cited. We 
already have the tools for that.

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