On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:27:32 -0700
"Mark Doliner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> By default jabberd 2 uses '@localstatedir@/jabberd/pid/component.pid'
> as the pid file for each component.  This ends up being
> '/usr/local/var/jabberd/pid/c2s.pid' for me when I don't specify a
> prefix.
> 
> This seems weird to me.  I don't even have a /usr/var
> or /usr/local/var on Ubuntu Linux or CentOS Linux, and I can't find
> any reference to it in the Filesystem Hierachy Standard (FHX), so I
> don't understand why autoconf sets localstatedir to be
> '${prefix}/var/' in the first place.  The FHS suggests that pid files
> be placed under /var/run/
> (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARRUNRUNTIMEVARIABLEDATA).
Well, according to FHS it should rather be under /var/local somewhere. 

Regards,
harry

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