Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

From: Paul Morgan (paulswm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/27/03

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    Monique Y. Herman wrote:

    >On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 23:33 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:
    >
    >
    >>In my experience, /opt and /usr/local have slightly different
    >>functions. /opt would be used for vendor applications, etc., whereas
    >>/usr/local would be used for locally built tools, etc.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >That seems like a really arbitrary way to choose to split up
    >executables. I guess I just don't understand why I as an admin would
    >care to make that distinction.
    >
    >
    >
    A real life example:

    If you're administering a couple of hundred servers on a corporate
    network, then it makes sense. The key is standardization. The apps
    that the different servers run you put in /opt (for instance, one server
    may be running an Oracle-based application, another an Informix
    application, so you put Oracle orInformix and the app in /opt).

    /usr/local can be the same on all the servers.

    This is current normal practice with Unices, and, much to its credit, is
    the way the FHS is also defined. 

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....................paul
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