Re: location of the configuration files

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote:
> >
> > My patch only works on the PostgreSQL server code. No changes have been
> > made to the initialization scripts.
> >
> > The patch declares three extra configuration file parameters:
> > hbafile= '/etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf'
> > identfile='/etc/postgres/pg_ident.conf'
> > datadir='/RAID0/postgres'
> >
>
> If we're going to do this, I think we need to account for all of the
> files in the directory including PG_VERSION, postmaster.opts,
> postmaster.pid. In the end if we can't build so that we are either fully
> FHS compliant and/or LSB compliant, we've not done enough work on it.

Woh, how do we move some of those files into /etc or /var/run if we
aren't running as root? We certainly don't want to require that. I
guess /etc/postgresql will work if that directory is owned by the
PostgreSQL superuser, but /var/run will be a problem.

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