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Re: Bug ?
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: Bug ? |
Date: |
20 Oct 2002 11:33:42 +0200 |
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"John D. Coleman" <address@hidden> writes:
> Problem: ftpd's man page states that the file 'ftpusers' is normally
> stored in /etc. It's aint there.
We could change the info pages to say that it is stored in
/usr/local/etc, but this isn't a good solution either. What would
happen if a user uses --prefix=/usr or some such?
Or could generate the info pages, but this would require users to
have texinfo installed.
One possible solution is to make a small foot-note on commonly used
places where this is stored, and that it is system dependent. Anyone
have any objections against this?
The problem with saying "is stored in $(sysconfdir)" is that the user
won't know what the prefix is for the installed program.
> Wouldn't this make ftpd Filesystem Hierarchy System 2.2 compliant ?
It would make it FHS compliant if it looked in /etc by default, but
this wouldn't follow the GNU Coding Standard where sysconfdir is set
to @prefix@/etc.
Cheers,
--
Alfred M. Szmidt
- Bug ?, John D. Coleman, 2002/10/20
- Re: Bug ?,
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