Sergey B Kirpichev wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Ken Neighbors <debi...@ken.nsds.com> wrote:
Here are the specifics of my suggestion:
1. Use the "-configdir" option in Debian-packaged scripts
(/usr/share/awstats/tools/buildstatic.sh and update.sh) to instruct
awstats.pl to only search one directory, "/etc/awstats".
This is a good idea. Probably, an option for /etc/default/awstats &
debconf question together could give a backward-compatible solution.
Since I wrote that suggestion, I have found and considered some
additional information that may be helpful in deciding whether or not to
implement it:
1. The "-configdir" option would only affect the location of
configuration files when awstats.pl is called from the Debian-packaged
scripts. It would NOT affect the location of configuration files when
awstats.pl is called from the web server (through cgi-bin). This
discrepancy may lead to some inconsistent reports or problems that are
difficult to track down, because the sysadmin may have installed some
similarly-named config files in the alternate configdir locations (which
would get accessed from awstats.pl called from the web server, but not
when called from the Debian scripts). Therefore, this particular part
of my suggestion could introduce a problem I had not initially considered.
2. If deciding to implement the rest of my suggestion (or any suggestion
which involves moving or renaming configuration files), this resource
may be helpful for automatically renaming a conffile on package-upgrade
(you might already know about this technique):
http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
Ken
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