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/usr/games One of my pet peeves when I work on clusters before I even mess with the fstab or ufw is always deleting this folder.
by quackerhacker 13y ago
/usr/games
One of my pet peeves when I work on clusters before I even mess with the fstab or ufw is always deleting this folder.
- freework 13y agoYou must be great at parties.
- jlgreco 13y agoGames can go in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or anywhere other reasonable location. What is next, /usr/editors ? /user/browsers ? It is senseless.
- housel 13y ago/usr/games has been around since Unix v7, released in 1979. Before there were package managers, putting optional features in a designated place was the only way to conveniently control them. There were once systems that controlled access to the /usr/games directory during work or daylight hours to keep game playing from interfering with other users on the multiuser system.
- kryten 13y agoWhy bother. Just leave it there.
- quackerhacker 13y agoIt's just a pet peeve. Since alot of the clusters I work on are web servers or parallel computing servers (that still have access through to a network), I like to clear out any dirs and files that aren't needed, mount ro access to any dirs that shouldn't be written to, and do every other thing I do to lock down the server. It's helped me before detect unauthorized files that contained malicious code.