On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:31 AM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR <c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:05:56 -0400 > Derrick Brashear <sha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:02 PM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR >> <c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote: >> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:52:08 -0400 >> > Derrick Brashear <sha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Gerrit 7903 adds 2 krb5 profile-style config files, >> >> openafs-client.conf (in client's etc dir e.g. /usr/vice/etc) and >> >> openafs-server.conf (in server's etc dir e.g. /usr/afs/etc) >> > >> > i might ask why put them in /usr/.../etc? i understand that >> > traditionally, that is where they should go but the world is >> > apparently moving to a /usr is read-only model. >> >> if your packages already put e.g. CellServDB elsewhere, the files will >> end up in the same directory. >> it's just a dirpath-using thing. it already adapts if you're adapting >> other things. it's not hardcoded. >> >> in transarc-paths land, you get those paths. otherwise, you get something >> else. >> already solved problem. > > i like having the afs server binaries in /usr/afs instead of in a place > a user might typically have in their search path (yes, i know -- dont > have users on your fileservers) i dont really enjoy having the config > files there. how about an option (like -C/--configpath) to tell the > servers where to look for the config files and then in the config files > i could further configuration locations of things like '/usr/afs/db'.
fix it in dirpath and this comes along for the ride. it doesn't belong in this patchset. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list OpenAFS-devel@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
