Re: Bug#258725: Location of net.agent

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

i been thinking a bit more.

perhaps there should be a debian installer-option which specifies the
directory for state information: it should be a high-priority option
and should end up placing the writeable-directory-location into
/etc/default/hotplug under some appropriate variable, e.g.
STATE_DIRECTORY.

then, wherever hotplug refers to /etc/hotplug to write files, place
$(STATE_DIRECTORY) in front of it, which is read from
/etc/default/hotplug.

the information presented to the person doing the installation should
be something like this:

	"Please type in [select?] a directory location for hotplug to
	 put its state information.

	Bear in mind that the directory must be writeable very early in
	start-up time, so if you select /var/run/hotplug, for example,
	and /var is NFS mounted, the directory may not yet be accessible.

	If you are running a really weird non-standard system (NFS mounted,
	lots of partitions, an SE/Linux system with read-only access to /etc,
	you may wish to use /devfs/shm/tmp.

	If you do not know what this is all talking about, just press
	<return> to select /etc/hotplug/run as the default"

this will at least allow people to install systems that will work in
almost all cases.

l.

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:33, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
>  by recommending a subdirectory, it is possible to do the
>  selinux-equivalent of setgid, such that any file in that
>  subdirectory will be made writeable to the hotplug scripts.

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