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A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors: 10 Do's and Don'ts

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What can software vendors do to make the lives of system administrators a little easier?

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Regarding #9.

Unix standards recommend that all third party applications be installed in /opt, with configuration data placed in /etc/opt, and data files residing in /var/opt, all under a common namespace directory. Developers should defer to OS vendor guidelines, but should still make sure they communicate locations to administrators.

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