Re: Game servers in /usr/games or /usr/sbin
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Magnus Holmgren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Game executables should be installed in /usr/games, but what about game servers that are designed to be long-running (in contrast to ones that just manage a single game) and to run as a system daemon, and doesn't work if executed by an ordinary user? I don't think either Policy or the FHS mentions this explicitly, possibly because there are very few such executables. #506811, right? Looking quickly at the existing ones, it seems that most of them do not have the server executables placed in /usr/games. Whatever the answer is, I don't really see #506811 as an RC bug. The user was misusing the package as he is not launching the game server the way it is intended to be launched. So, whatever the answer to your question is, the bug should IMHO be closed. Maybe another can be opened for moving the binary to /usr/sbin, depending on what this discussion gives Why should the server be in roots path? Games should never be run as root. If the server is to be started by a user then /usr/games. Otherwise I would go for /usr/lib/package/. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Game servers in /usr/games or /usr/sbin
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:08 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Magnus Holmgren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Game executables should be installed in /usr/games, but what about game servers that are designed to be long-running (in contrast to ones that just manage a single game) and to run as a system daemon, and doesn't work if executed by an ordinary user? I don't think either Policy or the FHS mentions this explicitly, possibly because there are very few such executables. #506811, right? Looking quickly at the existing ones, it seems that most of them do not have the server executables placed in /usr/games. Whatever the answer is, I don't really see #506811 as an RC bug. The user was misusing the package as he is not launching the game server the way it is intended to be launched. So, whatever the answer to your question is, the bug should IMHO be closed. Maybe another can be opened for moving the binary to /usr/sbin, depending on what this discussion gives Why should the server be in roots path? Games should never be run as root. [...] This is just as true for many other network servers, but by convention they live in /usr/sbin. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Game servers in /usr/games or /usr/sbin
Game executables should be installed in /usr/games, but what about game servers that are designed to be long-running (in contrast to ones that just manage a single game) and to run as a system daemon, and doesn't work if executed by an ordinary user? I don't think either Policy or the FHS mentions this explicitly, possibly because there are very few such executables. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
