Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 02:04:24 +0400 (MSD) From: "."@babolo.ru To: calvin@varney.org (Calvin Varney) Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Instalation directories Message-ID: <200206282204.CAA26627@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <868z50i2m8.fsf@ubana.varney.org> from "Calvin Varney" at "Jun 28, 2 02:00:31 pm"
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Calvin Varney writes: > Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > >> I'm new to the porting process and currently trying to port a java > >> application server. > > > > Which one? Orion, Tomcat 3, Tomcat 4, JBoss 2 and JBoss 3 are already in the > > ports. I suggest you take the Orion port (www/orion) as a starting point and > > work from there. > > JOnAS > WWW: http://www.objectweb.org/jonas/index.html > > > > >> I note some ports write to /var/log and others to > >> ${PREFIX}/portname/log. > > > > I have no definite answer. I just let my ports log to the port installation > > directory, like ${PREFIX}/orion1.5.4 for Orion. > > > > PS: Have you tried the java@FreeBSD.org mailing list? > > Do follow this list but hoping to find a general guideline for all > ports along the lines "the log files generated by ports should be > placed in /x/y/z" as we do in the porters handbook and hier(7) for > configuration files, documentation, examples etc. > > Thanks for the comment, if I don't receive any other feedback I'll > probably go with the port installation directory as you have with > Orion. ${PREFIX}/ is not right plase for logs. When /usr/ can work read only, it can be easily shared between a bunch of computers (I usually do workstations with /usr ro mounted from server. If logs goes to ${PREFIX}/ no easy way to build and support a bunch of computers. -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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