> On May 12, 2020, at 3:30 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 2020-05-12 02:27, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> Also change the default destination directory to /usr/share/xt_geoip >> as most distros use this now. Update the documentation. > > This would break the current expectation that an unprivileged user, > using an unmodified incantation of the command, can run the program > and not run into a permission error. > > Maybe there are some "nicer" approaches? I'm calling for further inspirations. I’m open to suggestions. We could default it to a system path only when running as root, for instance. > >> -my $target_dir = "."; >> +my $target_dir = "/usr/share/xt_geoip";
