Bug 569576 - Variable data file inn_status.html should not be placed in /usr
Summary: Variable data file inn_status.html should not be placed in /usr
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: inn
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Nikola Pajkovsky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-03-01 18:43 UTC by Robert Nichols
Modified: 2014-02-02 22:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-11-04 13:52:18 UTC
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Description Robert Nichols 2010-03-01 18:43:30 UTC
Description of problem:
The inn daemon attempts to place its status file, inn_status.html, in /usr/lib/news/html.  This is a FHS violation.  Variable data files belong under /var.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
inn-2.5.0-6.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the news server
  
Actual results:
/usr/lib/news/html/inn_status.html is created, or a failure is logged if /usr is mounted read-only.

Expected results:
That file belongs elsewhere.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2010-07-02 12:17:42 UTC
inn-2.5.1-4.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/inn-2.5.1-4.fc13

Comment 2 Nikola Pajkovsky 2010-07-02 13:57:12 UTC
False alarm :)

Could you try this build? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2290079

Comment 3 Robert Nichols 2010-07-03 14:21:06 UTC
That build is running fine here on F-12.  Thanks.

    inn-2.5.0-7.fc12.x86_64
    inews-2.5.0-7.fc12.x86_64

Only down side is that the update process stops the currently running innd and does not restart it, but the server really shouldn't be restarted until the change in /etc/news/inn.conf.rpmnew has been merged into inn.conf, so I don't know of a clean way to get around that.

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