Re: Bug ?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

"John D. Coleman" <address@hidden> writes:

> Problem: ftpd's man page states that the file 'ftpusers' is normally
> stored in /etc.  It's aint there.

We could change the info pages to say that it is stored in
/usr/local/etc, but this isn't a good solution either.  What would
happen if a user uses --prefix=/usr or some such?

Or could generate the info pages, but this would require users to
have texinfo installed.

One possible solution is to make a small foot-note on commonly used
places where this is stored, and that it is system dependent.  Anyone
have any objections against this?

The problem with saying "is stored in $(sysconfdir)" is that the user
won't know what the prefix is for the installed program.

> Wouldn't this make ftpd Filesystem Hierarchy System 2.2 compliant ?

It would make it FHS compliant if it looked in /etc by default, but
this wouldn't follow the GNU Coding Standard where sysconfdir is set
to @prefix@/etc.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt