[PLUG] Ownership of /var/www on Ubuntu 8.04

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Dan Young wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
>>    overwrite. my new favorite is in /srv, which is the LSB-blessed
>>    location for "site-specific data which is served by the system."
>
> You're the one!
>
> Honestly though, I don't know why use of /srv hasn't taken off [1],
> given how overloaded /var is.
>
> [1] At least in the straw poll of people to whom I talk.

/srv is well populated on the machines I maintain:

   /srv/svn -- Subversion repos
   /srv/git -- Git repos
   /srv/trac -- Trac instances
   /srv/www -- virtual hosts

Etc.

Plus, you can back up /srv as a whole, while /var needs to be 
dissected for what should (lib) and shouldn't (tmp, lock, run) be 
backed up.

-- 
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