From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 17:28:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lexx.zssm.zp.ua (lexx.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA12D37B400 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (germes-comp.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.132] (may be forged)) by lexx.zssm.zp.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA09015; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 03:08:09 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g556Bcq38561; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:11:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:11:38 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko To: Jonathan Chen Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Filesystem layout In-Reply-To: <20020605074416.A66850@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Message-ID: <20020605090656.X38547-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:48:40PM +0300, Alexander V Zubchenko wrote: > > Greetings, All! > > > > I have general question about the subj. How it would be better for > > administering to install big pkg's, such as apache, mysql, postgresql, > > etc., directly in /usr/local/ or in /usr/local/{pkg_name}? And, when > > compiling apache 2.0 it doesn't found my postgresql-7.2 installation. It > > was necessary to install PgSQL to /usr/local/pgsql to make it work. > > Use the ports system. It puts everything in the right place, and > somebody else maintains it for you. > -- > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat > Yes, but i choose freebsd, because i don't want to somebody else maintain my PC for me ;-) But question was about general UNIX ideology and current state of FreeBSD hier(7). qmail install itself into /var/qmail (but var is not for this), /var/tmp is also not so good idea, imho. etc. etc. etc. i think that current directory structure is not clear. and what you say, all, if i will try to suggest another one. Or where it may b suggested for better results and lesser annoying factor. Thx, Alexander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message