Subject: [netatalk-admins] atalkd temp file, and RO partitions
From: chuck (chuck@Yerkes.com)
Date: Sat Nov 13 1999 - 20:05:13 EST
Have just ignored this forever, but setting up a new server
and recall it. Using the FreeBSD netatalk+asun port. Have
been using netatalk on a SunOS box since '96/97. No problems
to speak of.
netatalk binaries are all stored under /usr/local/. atalkd
WANTS, desparately to create a temp file. I'm not entirely
sure why. I do know that, in a 44BSD architecture - or any
Unix, there are better places to do this in (default?)
/usr/local/etc/. Apple does this sort of thing, Unix
understands that data does not live with binaries. and etc/
directories are for config files, not for (ever mount photoshop
and other apps in readonly partitions?)
I've redefined it to /var/run (which is writeable only by root),
and non-44bsd folks could put it into some other area, what is
the RIGHT answer.
So while I can redefine PATH_ATALKDTMP in include/atalk/paths.h
(which SHOULD have an ifdef so I can override it from the
Makefile), what does it do?
Oh yeah, note that at least OpenBSD (and likely others) can run
just fine with a read-only ROOT partition. Only count on /var
to be writeable (ok, data partitions to, but who knows where they
are). So temporary writes go under /var/ only.
chuck
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