On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 05:44:59PM +0200, viq wrote:
> Currently _salt-master has home of /nonexistent.
> _salt-master needs a home dir that exists to be able to use git with ssh
> keys. Seems a standard place to do that would be /var/salt
check how other ports needing a real homedir for their user do ?
> Another thing to figure out is where to put standard place for state
> files etc. "default" option is to have them under /srv:
>
> BASE_FILE_ROOTS_DIR = '/srv/salt'
> BASE_PILLAR_ROOTS_DIR = '/srv/pillar'
> BASE_MASTER_ROOTS_DIR = '/srv/salt-master'
>
> though eg FreeBSD keeps them under /usr/local/etc/salt:
>
> --salt-base-file-roots-dir=${ETCDIR}/states \
> --salt-base-pillar-roots-dir=${ETCDIR}/pillar \
> --salt-base-master-roots-dir=${ETCDIR}/salt-master \
>
> So far we kept the default, do we want to change that?
I'd say probably somewhere in /var yes..
Landry
