martin f krafft wrote:
> noip2 requires write-access to the configuration file for standard
> operation. This is a bit daft:
>   
Your choice of wording is unnecessarily harsh, considering that the
placement of the conf file is based on your own suggestion [1], and that
/var/lib is a standard location for keeping runtime state [2].

> If this is software madness, then maybe the init.d script could make
> a copy of the file to /dev/shm and use that, if
> /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf is not writeable?
>   

This seems unnecessary, but a patch would be welcome.
Thanks,
Avi.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430842
[2]
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY

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