Subject: Re: /usr/pkg/var
To: <>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/02/1999 07:23:27
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
>
> > I noticed that mysql-server wants the directory /usr/pkg/var to exist to
> > store pid's of the running mysqld. Should the package be modified to
> > create this directory? With INSTALL_DATA_DIR? If so, should /usr/pkg/var
> > be left out of PLIST dirrm's since other packages may use that directory
> > too?
>
> Shouldn't the (any) pid file go in /var/run and not somewhere under
> $PREFIX?
in that case I should modify the package to put the pid in /var/run?
-Dan