On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:58:32PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
On 09/21/2009 04:04 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:47:24PM +0200, Martin Gieseking wrote:
>
>> during the review of ncrack
>> (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523199) I noticed that the
>> file ncrack-services is placed in /usr/share/ncrack by default. Since it
>> is a kind of configuration file that contains mappings between port
>> numbers and protocol names (similar to /etc/services), I'm not sure
>> whether the location /usr/share/ncrack is OK or whether it's required to
>> move it to /etc. Here's its content:
>
> Imho it does not need to be moved to /etc, because it should only be
> edited by experienced users and then the user can specify a the edited
> file at the commandline.
>
Neither of which are factors considered by the FHS.
Since the file is not meant to be edited, it is not a host-specific
config file, but a package version specific config file, which is
managed by upstream and not by the user. So from the users point of
view, it's more a data file than a config file.
Btw. as far as I understand the program, if the config file is changed,
then an addional module, which is written in C++, that covers the new
service needs to be added, too.
Regards
Till