On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 21:01, Paul wrote: > > Mentors, > > Secondly, I have started to package the Mordor MUD engine, of which I am > one of the upstream authors. I have several questions about the proper > file system layout -- the upstream tarball assumes that you will be > installing into the home directory of a dedicated user (usually 'mordor'). > It is easy to modify the config file to point to the debianized paths, > however I am not sure if or how I should create a new user account to own > the files. Does this go in the postinst script? I currently have the > game files which need read/write access in /var/games/mordor is this > correct? Any feedback is appreciated. > Yeh, create a user with /var/games/mordor as its home directory. ident2 does this but for the ident daemon, i suggest you look at its maintainer scripts for ideas. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/
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