The FHS gets thrown in my face from time to time (see the FAQ) but what folks don't seem to realize is that is is just a collection of pretty ad hoc selections of common usage discovered by some random people, and a declaration of intent to not make the variety of conventions any worse. A few special programs (like mail daemons etc) irregular practices have been taken as definitive for no good reason on top of regular patterns like /usr, but its is all very arbitrary.
Cfengine was written before the FHS, from the days when diskless workstations were all the rage and /var and /tmp were the only private areas. So I thought: keep is simple. No good deed goes unpunished. I see no reason to change a reasonable convention for a problematic one, simply because a wanton gang of ad hoc law-makers rode into town on the back of their (probably camels) waving their Linux Bibles. ;-) There, I said it! :-) On 02/04/2011 08:53 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Jesse Becker <becker...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: >> >> Theoretically, Linux systems should use the FHS: >> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ >> > > Great link, thanks, Jesse! I will check this out. > > Please do be aware that Cfengine runs on many Unix systems, not only Linux. > > One of the unique characteristics of Cfengine compared to other open source > configuration management tools, that it runs on the widest variety of > Unix-like > operating systems and even Windows. > > Best, > -at > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
