Where to put user written program

[William Harrington]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:38 AM, James Sissel 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

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

Sincerely,

William