On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:04:03PM -0700, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: > I maintain Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com), network backup software for > OpenSolaris. We are installing the software in location similar to Linux. > Amanda Solaris users have complained that this is not correct. > > Are there guidelines that OpenSolaris packages need to follow? Should all > files be installed under /opt/amanda/{var,etc,...}? > > Directory structure currently used by amanda packages for Solaris is > documented at > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_packages_from_Zmanda_downloads_page#Installation_directories
The filesystem(5) man page may help. I'd think your structure might look like this: /opt/amanda/{bin, sbin, lib, ... } /var/opt/amanda/ What does the Amanda app put into /etc?