BTW, for a reasonably useful trick (I hate having to figure some things
out) I tend to (as root):
ln -s /srv/www/htdocs /HTML
so that I *know* the root of the default web content. This has been useful
since I've had to cope with multiple OSes where their document root has
varied.
I first saw this kind of trick as being useful for tape drives-- another
thing that varied from system-to-system (i.e. Plexus vs Concurrent vs HPUX
vs Solaris vs Xenix vs NCR vs... you get the picture) where, by policy,
we'd symlink /dev/tape and /dev/ntape to the appropriate device on a
system.
Of course it is far too easy to go over-board with this, so finding a "good
balance" is not always immediately obvious to the eye; It is just that I
don't want to have to go down to the cellar... with a torch... and look in
the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet stuck into a disused lavatory
for the files I need.
(sighs)
Anyway, for the directory paths that vary from system-to-system that I tend
to have to find and manipulate, this trick has been helpful to me so that I
don't have to shift quite so many gears jumping from AIX/Apache to
AIX/Loathed Domino to Linux/Apache or wherever.
Just a thought.
Of course it also makes the "Stupid SSH Tricks" to transfer the contents of
a web tree from one machine to the other a little bit simpler, too.
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Phone: (813) 356-5322 (t/l 697)
Adsumo ergo raptus sum
MacOS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging
Windows.
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