WANTED: Clever solution for Transifex storage

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:42:39AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> So here's the scoop.
> 
> Right now, a stock install of the transifex package
> creates /var/lib/transifex. This directory and everything beneath it is
> currently owned by root:root. What needs to happen is that it needs to
> be read/written by whatever is running Transifex, be that as a
> standalone Django app, via httpd, or some other HTTP server. Frankly, I
> got nothing. Anyone else have any ideas?

For the mirrormanager package, the package creates and owns
/var/lib/mirrormanager as root:root.  Then in deployment, puppet
chown's /var/lib/mirrormanager to be the same user as the service runs
under.  Not exactly pretty, but has worked for me.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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