[Fedora-directory-devel] Please review: Bug 227771: FHS: use sysconfdir (/etc) as config file location

[Richard Megginson]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 20:23 -0800, Pete Rowley wrote:
>   
>> ok
>>
>> Richard Megginson wrote:
>>     
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227771
>>> Resolves: bug 227771
>>> Bug Description: FHS: use sysconfdir (/etc) as config file location
>>> Reviewed by: ???
>>> Files: see diff
>>> Branch: HEAD
>>> Fix Description: After much deliberation, we have decided that it is 
>>> ok that our dynamic config files are under /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance.
>>> So the config_dir will be /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance and the 
>>> security and schema files will go there as well.  Since the FHS is 
>>> ambiguous about this issue, and it will be very confusing if the 
>>> configuration files are not under /etc, and there are some agents 
>>> (webmin, cfengine) that do "dynamically" modify config files under 
>>> /etc, this outweighs any considerations about having the server using 
>>> it's config file like an "ascii database".
>>>       
>
> The debian folks (who take FHS seriously) won't buy that.  The real test
> is the ability to have a read only /etc.  This sounds like a /var/lib
> thing.  
>
> Before you get into pain over this, I suggest finding a FHS expert.
>   
Does Debian forbid cfengine?  webmin?  If you do need to occasionally 
edit a config file, do you have to change the permissions on /etc to 
read-write, then change it back?  Note that even files such as 
/etc/fstab can be dynamic as devices/filesystems are dynamically 
mounted/unmounted.

Every FHS "expert" I've ever talked to (and I've talked to several) say 
the FHS is ambiguous with regards to this issue.
> Andrew Bartlett
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