https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=117 Summary: syslog-ng.persist should not reside in /var/lib Product: syslog-ng Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: unspecified Component: syslog-ng AssignedTo: bazsi@balabit.hu ReportedBy: wlt@obsidian-studios.com Type of the Report: --- Estimated Hours: 0.0 syslog-ng uses a syslog-ng.persist file that is created in /var/lib. Per FHS 2.3 that should exist in a subdir, if not one specific to syslog-ng, then /var/lib/misc. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION An application (or a group of inter-related applications) must use a subdirectory of /var/lib for its data. There is one required subdirectory, /var/lib/misc, which is intended for state files that don't need a subdirectory; the other subdirectories should only be present if the application in question is included in the distribution. [38] [38] An important difference between this version of this standard and previous ones is that applications are now required to use a subdirectory of /var/lib. This causes problems on diskless systems with a shared /var/lib. Subdirs that contain unique per system data are not shared, and instead mounted on top of the shared /var/lib. I could do the same thing even for a single file, syslog-ng.persist in this case. However given FHS, it should be written in a subdir. Which I can then make that unique per system, like other subdirs in /var/lib that are not shared amongst all diskless systems. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.balabit.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.