Yes, I would suggest that there is a need for more detailed web apps policies - not just for where session files should be placed safely, but also things like safe and consistent ways to configure the webservers (apache1 vs apache2 are (or were last i looked) already a pain), and similarly for module support - like turning on mod_rewrite on the different systems.
the best irony of this bug, is : > I've implemented Joey's suggestion of 1777 & O_EXCL - mostly the files in tmp are written by CGI::Session, that takes care of things. > > I also moved the 1777 tmp dir back to /tmp/twiki, as per Nico's point wrt to filling /var Sven Olivier Berger wrote: > Le mercredi 13 août 2008 à 20:06 +1000, Sven Dowideit a écrit : >> Nico, >> >> /var/run - I'll keep that in mind for post lenny - I was really hoping >> that debian had a place for this sort of session data, but didn't manage >> to get there - thanks :) >> > > Maybe there is a web apps policy to be determined here (unless it exists > alread ?) > > For instance, when considering recent issues with session files in > phpgroupware, I noticed that with php5, by default sessions may be saved > in /var/lib/php5/. But as we needed some kind of admin management of > sessions of users (like killing them) it led us to have them (back) > into /var/lib/phpgroupware/sessions/. I guess I've asked for some policy > or guidelines but got no answer. > >> I'm hoping for the next release that I can move everything into >> /var/twiki (rather than scattered around the fs, including pollution the >> perl lib dirs) so that TWiki people stop being totally confused by the >> setup :/ >> > > Hmmm... It seems to me it wouldn't be a good idea. See > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-fhs and > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html for > reference. > > I guess code should be in /usr/ and not in /var/ right ? > > I guess that current dir layout is mostly good, as there are proper > symlinks in /var/lib/twiki (bin, lib, data, pub, etc.). Once you're > looking for something starting from /var/lib/twiki, you should find it > (for TWiki folks). > > Still, that /usr/share/perl5/TWiki* may not be desirable, yes. Bt I'm > pretty sure the configuration allows some curstomization of the perl > path. Still I don't know which path would be best. Maybe something > like /usr/lib/twiki/ ? > > Why change something that works ? ;) > > My 2 cents. > > Best regards, -- Professional Wiki Innovation and Support Sven Dowideit - http://DistributedINFORMATION.com A WikiRing Partner - http://wikiring.com Public key - http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Sven+Dowideit&op=index&exact=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
