Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> Also, some systems (IIRC, Debian and possible Fedora Core, to mention  
> some) seem to have a "new" directory, /srv, which seems to fulfill  
> this purpose.  Or at least that's what I deduce from its name, "a  
> home for servers".

I encountered /srv on SuSE systems and investigated it. It looks like
this directory was suggested in the FHS document

  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

ciao
     Klaus