On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:00:20PM -0500, Alan Sundell wrote: > an option to ./configure, but it might be nice to make the default > location of the UNIX socket something in /var/run. > > The FHS (if you care about the FHS) demands that transient sockets go > there. Even if you don't care about the FHS, there are a couple of good > reasons. If lpd is going to automatically create the socket, then > putting it in /var/run would make things work for people with / mounted > read-only, and putting it in a subdir of /var/run would allow the socket > to be created by a non-root-privileged daemon.
When the this release hits Debian, it will go in /var/run/lprng That is where the pid is found too, due to a --with-lockfile I'm hoping there will be a socket configure flag too. Doing this will mean lprng follows the FHS as well as Debian convention, pretty much any daemon that has a socket has it in /var/run/<package> For those that haven't seen the FHS, its found at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ The FHS people like to be annoying so they don't give you a HTML version of the document. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
