Hi!
Wouter Verhelst [2005-06-15 1:29 +0200]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/awk
rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21 2005-03-28 10:49 /usr/bin/awk -
/etc/alternatives/awk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/awk
rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13 2005-03-28 13:22 /etc/alternatives/awk -
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:35:10AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
As I said, I only regard the symlink target as configuration value, I
don't actually pretend that the actual log file is in /etc.
Okay, good; it's just that someone seemed to imply that this was not the
case.
--
The amount of time
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
That said, the Debian Policy document does mandage use of the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (FHS), which in turn describes /etc like this: /etc
contains configuration files and directories that are specific to the
current system.
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 18:59 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
it's a bit off topic but could you please explain how does the name
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log indicate it was created by
postgresql-common (as opposed to any other postgrsql-* packages, e.g.
postgresql-7.4 seems like a good
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:11 -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On 6/13/05, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a stupid argument.
It's not that stupid.
But it is.
Calling an argument stupid is another way of saying you disagree with it
but
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
ok, that's gotta be invalid argument since this could be argued for
ANY file so you would end up with links to EVERYTHING in /etc, so that
program would know where to find libraries, binaries, images, web pages
(hey! we need a way to store URLs in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
That also means the program is looking for its logfiles under /etc by
default, which FHS-compliant software is not supposed to do.
You mean it is allowed to do
read log /etc/app/log; cat $log/logfile.txt
and it is not allowed to do:
cat
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
isn't the reasonable interpretation of FHS that only what is supposed
to be in a particular directory is supposed to be there, i.e. that ONL:Y
static config files should be in /etc tree?
please change the /etc/rc*.d/ and /etc/alternatives/ semantics
Hi!
Erik Steffl [2005-06-12 16:25 -0700]:
why is there a link to logs in /etc?
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
The basic idea of the new cluster system was to have the complete
information about a cluster's files in
Hi again,
Martin Pitt [2005-06-14 23:53 +0200]:
The basic idea of the new cluster system was to have the complete
information about a cluster's files in
/etc/postgresql/version/cluster. That includes the location of the
log files and the data directory, which are configured using these
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Martin Pitt wrote:
Hi!
Erik Steffl [2005-06-12 16:25 -0700]:
why is there a link to logs in /etc?
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
The basic idea of the new cluster system was to have the complete
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:00:35PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
ok, that's gotta be invalid argument since this could be argued for
ANY file so you would end up with links to EVERYTHING in /etc, so that
program would know where to find libraries,
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:25 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
why is there a link to logs in /etc?
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
/etc is supposed to be for configuration files that are static, the
link to log violates both (yes,
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Oliver Elphick wrote:
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:25 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
why is there a link to logs in /etc?
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
/etc is supposed to be for configuration files that are
On 6/13/05, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a stupid argument.
It's not that stupid.
If other files shouldn't be there, the specs should explicitly state that.
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On 6/13/05, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a stupid argument.
It's not that stupid.
But it is.
If other files shouldn't be there, the specs should explicitly state that.
Use just a *little* bit of common sense.
Oh, wait, common
ma, 2005-06-13 kello 23:56 +0200, Olaf van der Spek kirjoitti:
On 6/13/05, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a stupid argument.
It's not that stupid.
If other files shouldn't be there, the specs should explicitly state that.
The Debian Policy does not, and cannot, have a rule for
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
That said, the Debian Policy document does mandage use of the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (FHS), which in turn describes /etc like this: /etc
contains configuration files and directories that are specific to the
current system. This cannot reasonably
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:55:09AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
That said, the Debian Policy document does mandage use of the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (FHS), which in turn describes /etc like this: /etc
contains configuration files and
Oliver Elphick wrote:
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:25 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
why is there a link to logs in /etc?
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
/etc is supposed to be for configuration files that are static, the
link to log
why is there a link to logs in /etc?
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
/etc is supposed to be for configuration files that are static, the
link to log violates both (yes, it's only a link so it doesn't change
but points to a file
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