William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been using ASSP for several years now. I love it. I am very > pleased to see the new features in 1.2.5. I am still running older 1.1.x > versions. But looking to upgrade ASAP. In the mean time I am also having > to setup ASSP on a new mail server. > > Since I have several ASSP installs to maintain, upgrade and etc. I > would like to have it packaged and available on Gentoo as an ebuild. So > people can emerge assp. To download, install and etc ASSP. > > In the process of doing such, I have noticed that ASSP does not like > stuff to be outside it's base directory. Specifically despite having a > configurable path, does not allow for log file or pid file to be outside > of base directory. At a minimum I would like for the pid file to be > in /var/run/assp/. I would like the maillog to be in /var/log/assp/. > > Now I can get the pid file in the right place if I modify aspects of > assp.pl. At the moment via sed > > sed -i -e 's:$base/$pidfile:/var/run/assp/$pidfile:' \ > -e "s:'pid':'asspd.pid':" > > I can't seem to do anything with the log file. It seems to only want to > be in the base directory. Now if those things can be addressed that > would be great. > > Also one last thing that would be nice. Would be if ASSP's images > directory can be located outside of the base directory. Currently we are > putting all *pl *sh stuff in /usr/share/assp, along with the images > directory. All *txt *.sav and etc goes in the base > directory, /var/lib/assp. > > This respects FHS[1] with regard to layout and where files are > installed. Since only thing in /var is variable data and the stuff > in /usr/share/assp, is not. That's the executables and resources. > I am doing a temp work around with the images by placing a symlink > to /usr/share/assp/images in /var/lib/assp. > > My current biggest concern is being able to control the location of the > log file outside of the base directory. Second is basically the same but > with regard to the pid file. Finally the third is ability to specify > location of images. So ASSP can be installed per FHS[1]. > > 1. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > > Thanks and keep up the awesome work. >
The FreeBSD port uses symlinks to place the files in the appropriate places. As long as permissions are maintained properly it works without an issue. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
