On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ryan Schulze <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/17/2012 1:17 PM, dan (ddp) wrote: >> >> Since you've installed OSSEC somewhere silly, [...] > > totally off-topic, but I always wondered why the default installation is in > /var and not /opt ? > Maybe it's just me (I started out with SunOS/Solaris and then transitioned > to Linux later), but I prefer software that didn't come from a packet > manager to reside in /opt or /usr/local/ > >
I can't speak for Daniel Cid, but my guess would be because /opt is less common than /var, and seems fairly deprecated at this point. I cringe every time I see /opt, but maybe that's because I'm used to BSD which generally doesn't use it.
