Re: Security of CFINPUTS

[Mark . Burgess]

On 15 May, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:47:21PM +0200, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
>> On 15 May, Julien Brouchier wrote:
>> > 
>> >    I always thought that /var/SOMEPROGNAME is somewhat wrong, Why 
>> > would'nt you use /var/lib/cfengine ?
>> > 
>> 
>> 
>> This is an eternal discussion, but /var/lib doesn't actually
>> exist on all systems. On the other hand, one has /var/cron ..
>> which also...doesn't exist on all systems...
>> What a mess Unix is. Let's not try to tidy it up ;-)
> 
> So long as it is configurable, this is not a problem.  Then the package
> maintainers for the various *nixes can set it how they like.
> 

Unfortunately the location of config files cannot be meaningfully
made configurable, since that would require meta-config files, which
would.... yeah. At some point an executive decision has to be made.
And this always causes arguments.

Mark

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