Re: Directory structure

["Adam Thompson, MCNE, MCSE" <athompso@commerced.com>]

Michael Richard wrote:
> /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)

The whole point or /var is that if you have a shared-disk environment,
EVERYTHING can be mounted read-only except /var.  "/var" is designated
the area that contains machine-specific data that must be modified
regularly.

"/etc" should be mountable read-only while in multi-user mode, so that
the only way to change your system configuration is to boot single-user
and remount /etc as read-write.

It's actually a security and manageability feature of sorts.

There is a discussion of this with historical background information in
the FSSTND (which is Linux-centric) located at
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/.

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