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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
cc: Paul Traina <pst@freefall.freebsd.org>, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/apache/scripts configure
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On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, John Fieber wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, John Fieber wrote:
> > 
> > > 1) Can we install the binary as /usr/local/libexec/httpd?
> > 
> >   Surely you mean /usr/local/sbin/httpd?
> 
> No I didn't, but I can think of some good arguments for putting it 
> there.
> 
> man hier says:
> 
>               libexec/  system daemons & system utilities (executed by other
>                         programs)
> 
> ...
> 
>               sbin/     system daemons & system utilities (executed by users)
> 
> so it really depends on whether you view it as something that users use 
> on their own, or something that is started at boot (or via inetd) that users 
> can use via their ~/public_html directories.  
> 
> Anybody with strong feelings either way?  Regardless, I definately think 
> that /usr/local/www/httpd is *not* the place for it.

  Things started at boot should be in /usr/local/sbin too.  
/usr/local/libexec should be reserverd for executables that are not 
stand alone.  This keeps things nice, because /usr/local/sbin should be 
in root's and other admin users PATH, while it shouldn't make sense to 
directly run anything in libexec.

  You are right though, /usr/local/www/httpd is not right.  Although 
samaba installs itself in /usr/local/samba/bin these days, which is also 
very odd.

Tom