Re: Directory structure

[eric jackson <shinobi@monkey.org>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Michael Richard wrote:

> There's some things in the OpenBSD directory structure that I don't like and consider to change.  Here they are:
> 
> /var/named/ -> /etc/named	(this one seems to work fine)
> /var/spool/ftp -> /home/ftp	(works fine too)
> /var/www -> /etc/www		(for configuration files)
>             /home/www           (for htdocs, icons and cgi-bin)
>             /var/www		(for log files)

There are real reasons for each of these. The distribution was not just
slapped together. named and www is in /var. kept to gether so that it can
easily be chrooted, if your not running named chrooted. DO SO!. The layout
from the begining was very well thought thru.

				Eric

> 
> I don't think that the ftp directory's changing anything, but I'm not sure about
> named because it runs chrooted, and I don't know if httpd runs chrooted too, so
> I'd like to know if it's possible to split it like I wanna do.
> 
> I know it may seems stupid to do this, but I'd like to have all configuration
> files in /etc and all user files (considering www and ftp as users) in /home.
> 
> Thanx for your help...
> 
> Michael
>