On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:37 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:29 -0400, David Mansfield wrote: > > > > Specifically to awstats: I have had to modify the cron.d script in order > > to add environment variables necessary for some further customizations > > we had made to the config for a few sites. > > > > In general, I think the 'executableness' of these is irrelevant: they > > are config files and should be marked so in rpm. All files that could > > conceivable be edited in /etc should be marked as config IMHO, and all > > OTHER files should be removed from etc. cf some previous discussion on > > the hal/freedesktop files: they were moved to /usr because people kept > > editing them and getting screwed. > > FWIW I feel that awstats cron job should just be executing a script > somewhere else, and that somewhere else would read config files from > standard locations that are then marked as %config. The config and the > execution should not be in the same file. Makes it very difficult to > change the file over time without upsetting local configuration. > I agree completely. The standard sysconfig type thing would be great here, but until it's done, the scripts DO need to be edited. As to my other comment, I believe all /etc files should, as a rule, be % config, and an effort should be made to take anything where there is a reasonable 'do not edit this file' argument to made should be moved OUT of /etc. My 2. David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
