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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:25:24 -0400
From:      Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
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:  <59A82A64.4050507@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <729F1CC6-9A65-4CDF-B7E5-FB520779FD15@adamw.org>
References:  <59A82622.4030502@gmail.com> <729F1CC6-9A65-4CDF-B7E5-FB520779FD15@adamw.org>

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Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
Lets say /usr/local/etc/product/ is chrooted and the only thing in it is 
the product.conf. Is there any security benefit for chrooting that 
directory path?



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