In article <[🔎] 20050614031716.GE13728@mauritius.dodds.net> you wrote: > That also means the program is looking for its logfiles under /etc by > default, which FHS-compliant software is not supposed to do. You mean it is allowed to do read log < /etc/app/log; cat $log/logfile.txt and it is not allowed to do: cat /etc/app/logdir/logfile.txt Personally I think the second is much cleaner and faster. Greetings Bernd