From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 24 15:51:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C72037B405 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 52645 invoked by uid 100); 24 Aug 2001 22:51:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15238.55895.459313.666515@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:51:03 -0500 To: "Aaron" , Milo Hyson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggested In-Reply-To: <108107450@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aaron types: > I'm not so concerned with "official" views as with what works. I know > there are MANY real-world system administrators out there that dont > follow the "official" view for one reason or another. What I'd like to > know is what they do and why. I think the hierarchy is the last hurdle > for me to true BSD enlightenment. :D Generally, your life will be easier if you follow the official view of the OS you're using. The only place I differ from that for FreeBSD is that ports install in /usr/opt (set one variable in /etc/make.conf, and it mostly works), and things that are ported or developed locally are installed in /usr/local. /usr/opt is part of /usr, as treating it as part of the OS for administrative purposes is the correct behavior in almost all cases. /usr/local is actually on /home, as treating it the same as user home directories for administrative purposes is the correct behavior in all cases. > From: Mark Rowlands > /var is for semi-dynamic files such as logs and PID files. It's separate Note that most of the things on /var are things that are generated locally, and will be different on machines that are otherwise identical. While you can share /usr between two machines, sharing /var tends to cause problems. It was created to hold such things, and I tend to think of it as short for "variant". http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message