On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03:42AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Chris Baines <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Mentors, > > > > I am looking at creating packages that involve programs that create > > caches while running of images or other files. But I am a bit stumped at > > what to do with the files they create, both where they are meant to go > > and with what permissions. > > one of these two, I would wager: > > /var/cache/ > /var/lib
Scratch /var/lib from that list. If the data can be recreated from another source, then it's cache data and should *not* live in /var/lib. > As for the permissions > > root:root 644 If the files are created by root-owned processes, sure. It kinda smells like this is going to be done by a user-run process, which means you won't be able to apply that ownership. You will probably have to revert to per-user data stored in the homedir, unless you want to start stuffing around with suid wrappers or some such. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
