[Fedora-directory-devel] Please review: Bug 227771: FHS: use sysconfdir (/etc) as config file location

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 20:23 -0800, Pete Rowley wrote:
> ok
> 
> Richard Megginson wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227771
> > Resolves: bug 227771
> > Bug Description: FHS: use sysconfdir (/etc) as config file location
> > Reviewed by: ???
> > Files: see diff
> > Branch: HEAD
> > Fix Description: After much deliberation, we have decided that it is 
> > ok that our dynamic config files are under /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance.
> > So the config_dir will be /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance and the 
> > security and schema files will go there as well.  Since the FHS is 
> > ambiguous about this issue, and it will be very confusing if the 
> > configuration files are not under /etc, and there are some agents 
> > (webmin, cfengine) that do "dynamically" modify config files under 
> > /etc, this outweighs any considerations about having the server using 
> > it's config file like an "ascii database".

The debian folks (who take FHS seriously) won't buy that.  The real test
is the ability to have a read only /etc.  This sounds like a /var/lib
thing.  

Before you get into pain over this, I suggest finding a FHS expert.

Andrew Bartlett

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