[csw-maintainers] /var/opt/csw/run in the CSWcommon package

[Brian Hill]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:18:36PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > Do people think it makes sense to include it? It looks like a shared
> > directory. 5 packages use it already, and another 6 use
> > /opt/csw/var/run, which is going to be ported. This makes 11 packages.
> > Is it enough?
> >
> 
> errr.. there's also the issue of, should we actually be USING
> "/opt/csw/var/run"?
> 
> it is rather different from the standard system version of /var/run,
> in that the system one is tmpfs, and nuked after every reboot.
> 
> also.. why would we not use /var/run directly? we would just need to
> be careful about the naming of what goes in there.

	I have to agree with Phillip. This ties into the discussion of
/etc/opt/csw vs /opt/csw/etc somewhat. PID files should go in /var/run.
Even if there are perceived namespace collisions, how often would you run,
for example, Sun's bundled sendmail and CSW's sendmail at the same time?

Brian