Packaging log files

[Aurelien Bompard]

Hey there,

I have made a package of Glest (http://www.glest.org). However, something 
bothers me. I've made the following layout :
/usr/libexec/glest/glest (game binary)
/usr/share/glest/ (game directory, where the rest of the files are)
/usr/share/glest/glest -> /usr/libexec/glest/glest (symlink)
/usr/bin/glest (script to run the real binary after cd'ing in the proper 
directory)

This works, but on startup, the executable logs its activity in a log file 
located in the same directory as the executable (/usr/share/glest)
This file has to be writable. Currently, my quick and drity fix was to 
replace this file with a symlink to /tmp/glest.log.
What would the proper fix be ? I could symlink it to a /var/games/glest 
directory which would be chmod 1777, but how can I make sure that two users 
on the same machine can play ?
I think the proper fix would be to have glest look for a log file in 
~/.glest/glest.log instead, but I'm not a C coder (sadly)...
Anyone has guidelines on how to do this ?

Thanks
Aurélien
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