On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > The default web root will be /var/www/default. There must be no files in > /var/www; as a temporary measure, a daily cronjob may be implemented to > move all files from /var/www to /var/www/default.
If you really feel that this is necessary, be sure to document the hell out of it - warnings on package install, explanation of what is being done (and why, which I'm not really clear on) in /usr/share/doc, email messages informing the sysadmin when files are moved including a reference to the explanation in /usr/share/doc, etc. I doubt that I'm the only one who keeps an index.html in /var/www which just says, "I don't know which virtual domain you wanted, so here are a list of the options with links that will bring them up for you." and I would be thoroughly upset if that were to be moved while I'm not looking. Especially if it got moved into a directory which already contains a perfectly good (and much more meaningful) index.html. Choosing a default configuration for packages is a good thing to do as well as probably being necessary. Forcing admins to stick to that configuration with cronjobs that periodically 'repair' any deviation from the default is not. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius
