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

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> All right, I'm updating syslog-ng to use /var/run. Here's also a bit
>> of a documentation update:
>>
>> diff --git a/htdocs/standards/layout.shtml b/htdocs/standards/layout.shtml
>> ...
>
>
> I dont think that belongs in that section.
> However, I did now add a specific mention of /var/run higher up on the page.

How about this existing bit:

var: Dont use this. Use /var/opt/csw instead.

...it seems to be in contradiction with "use /var/run" above.

You could say "well, it's talking about /var, and not /var/run, it's
not the same thing", to which I'm going to reply "do you mean it's
okay if csw files are scattered across subdirectories, just because
/var/whatever is not the same thing as /var?" I think the best way to
put it is: "The rule of thumb is to do X. One of the known exceptions
is case Y, in which you need to do Z, because of W." -- giving the
rule and the exception in the same place/paragraph.

Maciej