Which reminds me: $(sysconfdir) should never include $(prefix). If
there's a common need for a configuration directory under $(prefix) then
it should be represented by $(localconfdir) or some similarly named
variable.
This is a question I would like people to discuss more
so we
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which reminds me: $(sysconfdir) should never include $(prefix). If
> there's a common need for a configuration directory under $(prefix)
> then it should be represented by $(localconfdir) or some similarly
> named variable.
> This
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[ On Saturday, August 26, 2000 at 03:42:58 (-0600), Richard Stallman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
>
> Which reminds me: $(sysconfdir) should never include $(prefix). If
> there's a common need for a configuration directory under $(prefix) then
> it should be repr
On Aug 26, 2000, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Which reminds me: $(sysconfdir) should never include $(prefix). If
>> there's a common need for a configuration directory under $(prefix)
>> then it should be represented by $(localconfdir
On Aug 25, 2000, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Hmmm, I can look at amanda...).
Don't, unless you're looking for a good backup solution. Regarding
configuration, it's a very bad example of hard-coding too many
configuration decisions in compiled files.
> - When a process starts up
[ On , August 26, 2000 at 03:07:39 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
>
> Well, I can repeat my standard statement when things like this come up:
> Any package which installs parts of itself somewhere other than under
> $(prefix) unless it's explicitly configur
Greg> For those packages configured with GNU Autoconf I did this by
Greg> simply saying "--prefix=/usr" when configuring them
Can't you just configure with --sysconfdir=/etc as well?
Tom
On Aug 26, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
> This implies that sample configuration files should only be installed to
> some place like $(prefix)/share/examples, and that there be an "enable"
> procedure (an administrative program separate from "make install", and
> installed with
The NTP configuration runtime stuff is slowly moving to /usr/local/etc, as
there are a number of sites that NFS mount /usr/local/etc and there are
shared configuration files that each host may decide to update. For private
information, we're currently saying "make everything visible under
/usr/l
OK, amanda is a bad example for how to handle config files.
So who can recommend a package that can be used as an example of a *good*
way to handle runtime configuration, hopefully for a daemon process that
must (reasonably securely) invoke executables as root?
H
Greg A. Woods writes:
> However this meant I was either faced with creating a symlink to point
> "/usr/etc -> ../etc", or patching all Autoconf'ed packages so that they
> did as I suggested above and did not include $(prefix) in $(sysconfdir).
Why didn't you just say `configure --prefix=/usr --s
On Aug 26, 2000, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So who can recommend a package that can be used as an example of a *good*
> way to handle runtime configuration
I had meant to add it to my message, and ended up forgetting to do so.
I think GCC is a good example of that, in the way it
[ On , August 26, 2000 at 14:06:05 (-0600), Tom Tromey wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
>
> Greg> For those packages configured with GNU Autoconf I did this by
> Greg> simply saying "--prefix=/usr" when configuring them
>
> Can't you just configure with --sysconfdir=/etc as well?
[ On Saturday, August 26, 2000 at 16:36:41 (-0400), Harlan Stenn wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
>
> The NTP configuration runtime stuff is slowly moving to /usr/local/etc, as
> there are a number of sites that NFS mount /usr/local/etc and there are
> shared configuration files
On Aug 26, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
> In any case if "sysconfdir" means what it says, i.e. "system
> configuration directory",
Only if you think of a system as a host. I think of a system as a
set of hosts on which the same set of policies apply. In this case, a
shared co
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