On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Randolph Cordell wrote:
> I did however, have to create many directories and files and assign
> permissions to get it going. Is this because the distributions are so
> different that those items can't be done? I don't know anything about
> Solaris but I was under the impression that the directory structure or Linux
> distributions are failrly similar to Unix distributions.
Solaris does some weird things with file paths.
On Linux, the distributions have little differences and pretty much
everything that ends up in the wrong place (mostly into /usr) is put
there by user or a script.
Perhaps the documentation and defaults should be somewhat unified.
Variable data (logs, databases, ...) in /var where it belongs, settings in
/etc, binaries in /usr, /usr/local or /opt...
