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

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 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,

No, it's in the subsection of "things under /opt/csw".

/opt/csw/var is not /var

that being said, I dont see why anyone would default to using
/opt/csw/var/run. am I missing something?
Things usually default to using /var/run. you have to go out of your
way to force it to translate to /opt/csw/var/run ?