From: Sergio Luiz Novaes (algol@LCC.UFMG.BR)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 07:30:24 EST
I think /usr/local is the standard since SunOS and Solaris (SUN). Its
purpose is to install freeware, common to a specific platform, existing one
for each (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and ....) if you have different
platforms/architectures. Almost all freeware package will set this as
default (GNU for example).
For any other purpose why not to create your own exportable (NFS)
filesystems and our only standard it's naming the directory on NFS server,
always using /export as prefix (SunOS/Solaris legacy).
Regards,
Sergio Luiz Novaes
LCC/UFMG - CENAPAD-MG/CO
Tel: +55 31 3499 5391/4910
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/usr/common or /usr/shared is the standard I've seen.
However, I once worked at one
linguistically-challenged dot-bomb that INSISTED on
/usr/local as a common, NFS-mounted (and read-only!)
repository for its 1200 UNIX machines.
It became an administrative nightmare installing
freeware into /usr/local.
--- "Green, Simon" <SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM> wrote:
> Our setup is a bit untidy at the moment as we've had
> to integrate three
> different sites.
>
> The standard we've agreed on now is /usr/common on
> each CWS, kept
> synchronised with rdist, then maintained on each
> node with supper, (updated
> hourly). Each system also has a /user/local
> filesystem, for anything
> specific to that system.
>
> These filesystems contain executables of all sorts
> and configuration files.
>
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