Where to put user written program
djgoku
djgoku at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 13:02:17 CDT 2007
On 7/18/07, James Sissel <jimsissel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 for my web server. I've written a Perl program to
> parse my /var/log/messages file and place certain data into a mySQL
> database. I use PHP to read that database and create a nice webpage for
> myself to I can check the log easily. The question is, where should I place
> the Perl program? It should only be run as root and I'd like to create a
> daily cron job to run it. Options are (among others):
>
> /bin
> /sbin
> /root
/root/bin/*
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