RPM issues.

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Yotam,
   Thanks for the comments.  We've discussed splitting the release
into two packages on the mailing list, but the consensus was to
keep the release as it is now, and possibly split it later.

   I personally have never heard of the FHS.  I found a copy
at www.pathname.com and took a look.  Is FHS a real standard?  Has
Sun or Dec or SGI adopted FHS?  All the Solaris machines I have
access to have 40-50 directories in /usr.  Thats quite a bit more
than the FHS, and my RH 7.0 with MIT kerberos installed has a
/usr/kerberos, which wasn't in the FHS either.

   The file recommendations are reasonable, but I'm not sure
about the argus output file and archive.  /var seems reasonable
for the output file, but I'm not sure that its the place to put
the archive.  If we can come to consensus regarding the archive,
then I'll feel good about making the changes.

   Does the FHS have any guidance on this other than /opt?


Carter

Carter Bullard
QoSient, LLC
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Yotam Rubin
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:53 AM
To: argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: RPM issues.



Hello,

I wish to address some issues regarding the RPM package of argus
2.0.0.beta.5.


 * It might be wise to split the package into two different packages: 
   argus-server and argus-client. The reason for this is that a user
   may wish to run the argus server on one machine and analyze the
auditing
   information on another. 
 
 * It's hideously inconsistent with the FHS. Section 4 of the FHS
clearly
   describes the hierarchy under /usr; Obviously, the argus directory is
   not included. 
   
   - Move the binaries to /usr/sbin
   - Move the man pages to /usr/share/man
   - Move the documentation to either /usr/doc/argus or
/usr/share/doc/argus
   - The output should probably be stored in /var/log/argus. There's no
need
     to pollute with data/
   

Carter, would you like to upload my Debian packages to argus' public FTP

archive? I have prepared packages for the most recent version of argus.

    Regards, Yotam Rubin


P.S.: Attached to this letter is the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
version
      pre-2.1. 
      
      
  
   
   
   
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