On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Ivan F. Martinez wrote: >I have installed the rpm and the paths are not standard :
Which standard are you referring to? ;) I follow the File System Hierarchy Standard. Read about it here: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ >/opt/bincimap >/opt/bincimap/bin >/opt/bincimap/bin/bincimap-auth-checkpassword >/opt/bincimap/bin/bincimap-uidpwd >/opt/bincimap/bin/bincimapd >/opt/bincimap/etc >/opt/bincimap/etc/bincimap.conf >/opt/bincimap/etc/service >/opt/bincimap/etc/service-ssl >/opt/bincimap/etc/service-ssl/log >/opt/bincimap/etc/service-ssl/log/run >/opt/bincimap/etc/service-ssl/run >/opt/bincimap/etc/service/log >/opt/bincimap/etc/service/log/run >/opt/bincimap/etc/service/run >/opt/bincimap/etc/xinetd >/opt/bincimap/etc/xinetd/bincimap >/opt/bincimap/etc/xinetd/bincimaps >/var/opt/log >/var/opt/log/bincimap >/var/opt/log/bincimap-ssl >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >xinetd files must be in /etc/xinetd.d to be directly used by xinetd No, they can be symlinked. >bincimap.conf probably can be /etc/bincimap.conf or /etc/bincimap/bincimap.conf No, since the main tree Binc IMAP is not part of your distro, it has nothing to do int /etc/ or /etc/bincimap. It's an add-on package, and should according to FHS go in /opt/bincimap. >log files must be at /var/log/bincimap and /var/log/bincimap-ssl No, those areas are reserved for distribution packages. /var/opt is the only /var folder I can use. >I don't know about the /opt/bincimap/etc/servce* but if they are >configuration it can be in /etc/bincimap also. They are service files, and should be symlinked to wherever you want them. >Executables can be on /usr/local/sbin The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. Binc IMAP will go there if you do not specify any prefix when building from source. >This changes make easier to backup bincimap data with other applications. I both agree and disagree. The logic behind /opt is all the problems that arise when a system administrator installs packages that do not belong to the distro. Each distro typically has its own rules for where things should go. If each add-on package is installed onto /opt and /var/opt, the administrator will have quite an easy backup job. Removing a package is also very easy, as everything that belongs to an add-on is bundled in /opt/<packagename>. Note that the conf files are symlinked from the same base dir. The only exception is the logs, which are located under /var/opt. Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
