On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:43:45PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi. I have decided (and gotten permission) to package NISCA, which is a > program > that is similar to but more customizable than MRTG. It is written in php, so > there are no compiled files.
Thus all files are architecture independant. Those go to /usr/share/<package>/ as stated by the FHS. > It has one configuration file (functions.php), /etc, probably /etc/<package> as the filename is not easy to identify with the package it belongs to. > a few PHP scripts not meant to run under the web server but as daemons or > one-time scripts, Scripts should go to /usr/s?bin, as long as there is a chanche they will be run from the commandline. /usr/sbin might be preferable since they are not meant to be run from an ordinary user. You also need an initscript in /etc/init.d to start the daemons I think. > a few .sql files to set up things in MySQL, /usr/share/<package>, unless needed elswhere by MySQL. > and a few PHP > HTML files meant as Web pages. Place them in a subdir of /usr/share/<package> and place a symlink in /var/www, the default wwwroot on debian systems. > Plus a README and INSTALL file. The README should go into /usr/share/doc/<package>, the INSTALL probably not unless it contains instructions how to configure the package. > How would you > suggest I integrate all these files into the filesystem? Please read /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs.txt.gz and /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz (in the package debian-policy) if you need more explanation of my answers. Ingo -- 16 Hard coded constant for amount of room allowed for cache align and faster forwarding (tunable) -- seen in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/net/TUNABLE