Where to put user written program

[Scott Oertel]

djgoku wrote:
> 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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I agree, any script that I write the performs a system function and is
not part of the provisioning system usually goes in /root/bin

-Scott Oertel