On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> >> Am Samstag, 25. April 2009 16:29:03 schrieb Giovanni Scafora: >> >>> >>> ln -s /srv/http/cgi-bin/htsearch ${pkgdir}/usr/bin || return 1 >>> >> >> I thnik it should be the other way round. Imho no package should install >> anything into /srv. >> >> What do you guys think about this? >> > > FHS says: > > /srv contains site-specific data which is served by this system. > > This main purpose of specifying this is so that users may find the location > of the data files for particular service, and so that services which require > a single tree for readonly data, writable data and scripts (such as cgi > scripts) can be reasonably placed. Data that is only of interest to a > specific user should go in that users' home directory. > ... > > > So a cgi script seems fine... I would tend to agree that /srv should be > installed into by a package. But I don't deal with the type of package > which may want to use /srv so my opinion should be down-weighted > accordingly.
Installing into /srv/ is no different than installing into /home/, IMO. It might be worse as it presents a relatively big security risk for those that do run public facing services, and suddenly a new script has been made available for web site users to run. -Dan
