On 9/12/05, Russell Coker <<a href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au">russell@coker.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Monday 12 September 2005 19:51, Tim Waugh <<a href="mailto:twaugh@redhat.com">twaugh@redhat.com</a>> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:15:26PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > Why is the directory being created? If the directory in question > > deserves to exist then should it be created by the package and > > therefore have no need for the printconf-tui program to create it? > > It is created to cache some information which otherwise is read from > the XML files in /usr/share/foomatic/db. The cache file is to speed > up the process. > > Even if the directory exists, the file will need to be created. <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168085"> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168085</a> I've submitted the above bugzilla requesting that the package provide this directory. Tom, please review it and make any comments you consider appropriate.</blockquote><div> The fix posted there is much better. </div></div> Are there more services like this that we should review for directory-create in /var and other places? Will polyinstantiatiation help clean this up? tom -- Tom London