Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files
If you are interested in reading a contrary position, you can read Berstein's arguments for his recommended way to install services at: http://cr.yp.to/unix.html But since DJB is a class-A monomaniac, he may not be the best person to listen to. /var/qmail/control for qmail configuration files? Yeah, good one, DJB. -- Martin Coxall [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files
Generally things that live in /etc are owned and operated by the OS. Postgresql, by it's definition is a userspace program, not an OS owned one. Partially true. The FHS specifies that the /etc top layer is for system-own3d stuff, but the subdirectories off it are explicitly used for user space programs and, well, everything. (/etc/apache, /etc/postgres, /etc/tomcat3, /etc/tomcat4...) Martin Coxall ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 20:28, Steve Crawford wrote: I don't see why we can't keep everyone happy and let the users choose the setup they want. To wit, make the following, probably simple, changes: 1) Have postgresql default to using /etc/postgresql.conf /etc/postgres/postgresql.conf, if we want to be proper FHS-bitches. 2) Add a setting in postgresql.conf specifying the data directory 3) Change the meaning of -D to mean use this config file 4) In the absence of a specified data directory in postgresql.conf, use the location of the postgresql.conf file as the data directory Shouldn't it in that case default to, say /var/lib/postgres? -- Martin Coxall [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:21, Vince Vielhaber wrote: On 14 Feb 2003, Martin Coxall wrote: If you are interested in reading a contrary position, you can read Berstein's arguments for his recommended way to install services at: http://cr.yp.to/unix.html But since DJB is a class-A monomaniac, he may not be the best person to listen to. /var/qmail/control for qmail configuration files? Yeah, good one, DJB. I'm guessing that rather than reading it the above mentioned link you chose to waste our time with this instead. Good one, MC. Yeah, I've read it several times, and have often linked to it as an example of why one should be wary of DJB's software. It seems to me that since DJB doesn't follow his own advice regarding the filesystem hierarchy (see both qmail and djbdns), it'd be odd for him to expect anyone else to. *Especially* seing as he's a bit mental. (I'm not going to take this any more. I demand cross-platform compatibility!) -- Martin Coxall [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [HACKERS] location of the configuration files
Well, to the extent that you're serious, you understand that a lot of people feel that /usr/local should be reserved for stuff that's installed by the local sysadmin, and your vendor/distro isn't supposed to be messing with it. Which means if the the vendor installed Postgresql (say, the Red Hat Database) you'd expect config files to be in /etc. If the postgresql is compiled from source by local admin, you might look somewhere in /usr/local. Indeed. For better or worse, there is a Filesystem Hierarcy Standard, and most of the important Linux distros, BSDs and some legacy Unixen stick to it, so so should we. Configuration files should be in /etc/postgresql/, or at the very least symlinked from there. Martin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
