Linux Distro Directory Compairson

[GCamp]

Being a Newbe to Linux and trying to install various features to my Scalix server, I have found it very confusing trying to follow posts because the directory structure specified does not exist in my Linux Distro.

My question is this - Is there a table somewhere showing the differences in the directory structures of the most common Linux distros? The distro I am using is SUSE. It would be a great help if when a post says that file xyz was located at directory /abc, I could lookup directory /abc in the table and I would find with SUSE it was located at directory /def

I hope that I am not the only one to face this frustration.

[KevinAnderson]

You're not the only one to face it. LSB should have fixed it, but really had no teeth, so the problem still exists.

Probably the easiest solution for you to find files is to go to YAST, and install the findutils-locate package. Then at a command line, type updatedb. This will take a while to run.

What this will do is create a database of all the files on your system. From there, you can find something quickly by using locate (as an example, "locate swa.properties"). This will return the location (potentially more than one) VERY quickly.

Note however, that as this is database driven, the speed to locate the files initially is traded against the fact that this will go out of date. You'll want to refresh it by running updatedb every once in a while (weekly or so).

I suspect the confusion around this is also due to Scalix having recently changed directory locations to accommodate multiple instances on a single server. Scalix versions 10.0.5 and version 11.0.2.1 are current right now, and both show different paths. This shows up in the documentation too, when people can't find the correct path to a particular file because docs are based on 10, and they're running 11, or vice versa.

Hope that helps.
Kev.

[GCamp]

Kev,

Thank you very much for this info. I am sure that it will help me as well as countless other "Newbe's" out there.