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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:16:20 -0600
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: standard locations for port files
Message-ID:  <729F1CC6-9A65-4CDF-B7E5-FB520779FD15@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <59A82622.4030502@gmail.com>
References:  <59A82622.4030502@gmail.com>

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> On 31 Aug, 2017, at 9:07, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Lets say I have a product that I want to port to Freebsd.
> 
> Were is the standard location for the log file and PID file.
> 
> Would it be in
> /usr/local/etc/product/product.log
> /usr/local/etc/product/product.pid
> 
> or
> 
> /var/log/product.log
> /var/run/product.pid

It should be in /var. Many users keep /usr/local mounted read-only.

# Adam


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