[Kolab-devel] [PATCH] better modes

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Thu Jun 17 13:07:05 CEST 2010


* Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> [20100617 13:03]:
> * Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) <vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com> [20100613 13:03]:
> > Having said that, if the file is not supposed to be edited by any user, then 
> > the file should probably live in /var/lib/ (and not in /etc/) as some kind of 
> > state-full, transactional, generated, runtime configuration data file.
> 
> I think we can drop 444 as soon as it lives outside (/kolab)/etc,
> but as long as it is here, mode 444 gives a good hint that you
> should not edit the file directly.

Of course the target location needs to be a good one if we make the
effort to change it. I would have expected something like
/usr/share/kolabd/kolab.globals as it is generated on compile time
and not on run time.

Regards,
Thomas Arendsen Hein

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