cupsd: minor nit

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 13:29:17 UTC 2005


On 9/12/05, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On Monday 12 September 2005 19:51, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 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.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168085
> 
> I've submitted the above bugzilla requesting that the package provide this
> directory. Tom, please review it and make any comments you consider
> appropriate.


The fix posted there is much better.

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
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Tom London
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