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Hans Witvliet wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:15 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>> Hans Witvliet wrote:
>>> The warning reminded me that by default, the mysql-data resided
>>> under /var/lib/mysql/
>>>
>>> Which makes me wonder, according to the FSH, data belonging to
>>> servers/services should reside under /srv, just like www, ftp, tftp....
>> Good point. OTOH, which distributions use /srv/mysql? /var/lib/mysql
>> seems to be quite widely used. Anyway, please put this request to
>> bugzilla.novell.com and assign to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I don't think any other distribution currently uses /srv although it's
defined as the standard in FHS [1]
(but most distributions don't care about LSB anyway, be it Redhat,
Gentoo or - most notably - Debian)

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

Debian and Gentoo both have /var/www, which is definitely a very bad
choice wrt standards as it's just nowhere in the FHS (/var/lib/www would
have been "ok" IMO).

> Done: #188713
> 
> Certainly, it can be done manually afterwards.
> But when working for a department who is claiming to follow
> international standards and so, one finds lots of sysadmins unwilling,
> ignorant or just plain lazy to do so.

There isn't really a standard for that.
Even if you consider the FHS, here:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM

I think it's still a bit vague. And, as said, not many distributions
care a lot about FHS and LSB :\

> Better make it default under /srv
> I would suggest /srv/mysql (obvious)

Right, would make sense.

OTOH, what's the default directory being set by MySQL builds ?
At first glance, /srv/mysql would make sense, but if SUSE Linux is the
only distribution on the planet that uses /srv/mysql and all the others
use /var/lib/mysql (and so do the mysql.com builds), then I'm not sure
it would be such a good idea...

cheers
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