Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014 20:50:53 UTC+1 schrieb dan (ddpbsd): > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:50 PM, dan (ddp) <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:46 PM, theresa mic-snare > > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> hello community, > >> > >> out of curiosity, i was wondering, is there any reason why ossec > installs > >> everything in /var/ossec? > >> why not the usual directories /opt/ and /etc ? > > > > Is /opt usual? > > >
well, according to the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem /opt Contains locally installed software. Originated in System V <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V>, which has a package manager <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager> that installs software to this directory (one subdirectory per package) > >> is there any specific reason to this? > >> > > > > No clue, but it probably made things easier. > > > >> no judging, just wondering ;-) > >> > >> i'm writing a bachelor thesis on OSSEC, so this might be a question > that my > >> professor will ask me.... > >> > > Oops, in that case, you should probably contact daniel cid and ask him. > ok, good idea. thanks i'll contact, and if i'll get a response i'll post it here (if anyone even cares/bothers) ;-) > > >> thanks & regards, > >> theresa > >> > >> -- > >> > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "ossec-list" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ossec-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
