On Aug 13, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Tomasz Kuzemko <tomasz.kuze...@ovh.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When building traffic server I call configure with --localstatedir=/var
> and --with-user=trafficserver. I noticed that make install sets /var
> owner and group to trafficserver. After doing some research I found
> that the problematic code is in proxy/Makefile.am:
Hmmm, yeah, that does seem broken, doesn't it ? I don't think we write into
localstatedir directly, but into subdirectories of that? Can you file a bug,
and perhaps go through the layout.config as well, to make sure we never need
write perms / ownership of this dir?
>
> I also considered setting --localstatedir=/var/trafficserver but then
> log dir is set to /var/trafficserver/log/trafficserver which seems just
> wrong.
Well, you could override that too in this case. Looking at the layout.config,
it seems in many cases it'll do e.g.
localstatedir: /var+
runtimedir: ${localstatedir}/run
logdir: ${localstatedir}/log
cachedir: ${localstatedir}/cache
(which makes it e.g. /var/ltrafficserver/log/).
Thanks!
-- leif
