On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 23:33 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:A real life example:
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.
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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