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Hi Linux geeks, I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good. I am not able to understand what is the point of having scattered folders for apache server installation. when i see the /etc/httpd folder; it has only conf folder and links to logs, module and , run. As i have been

...t;https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints> The list of ignored mount points are stored in a directory (/var/run) that's cleared on reboot. (On CentOS it's a RAM disk.) It seems this should be stored in /etc/dovecot to remain persistent across reboots. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard> I discovered this when I saw a dovecot error message in /var/log/maillog that some of my automounts (that don't contain mail directories) were missing. Latest dovecot from this distro is dovecot-2.2.10-8.el7.x86_64. Does the new release fix this? (I haven't seen any real problems f...

Hi! I try to build a new 1.1.7 installation. Since I'm not a large sysadmin, just my own private mail server admin, I just wonder why the sysconf and state dirs defaults to $prefix? Maybe I'm old-school, but isn't /etc and /var, respectively, a better default than /usr/local? Should require two new variables in the configure script, though. (and yes, I know I set them with

Hi, I''m a new puppet user (thanks !) and I''m just looking at moving my homegrown manifest structure into something resembling the best practise guide at : http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetBestPractice. It seems as if the structure here doesn''t map to the default puppet layout (and thus doesn''t work with the standard puppet config