samba - Jan 1999 - makefile and path questions

Hi!

This morning, I found a system that was still running an ancient
samba. I immediately upgraded it to samba 1.9.18p1 and had the
opportunity to fiddle with the make file after not doing this for a
couple of months.

The default makefile sorts the files like this:

BINDIR (/usr/local/samba/bin)
  smbpasswd
  smbrun
  smbclient
  testparm
  testprns
  smbrun
  smbstatus
  smbpasswd
  make_smbcodepage
  nmblookup
  make_printerdef
  smbmount
  smbmnt
  smbumount
SBINDIR (/usr/local/samba/bin)
  smbd
  nmbd
LIBDIR (/usr/local/samba/lib)
  smb.conf
  lmhosts
  printers.def
  codepages/ (code pages)
VARDIR (/usr/local/samba/var)
  log.smb
  log.nmb
  locks/ (lock files)

/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd (password file)

IMHO, the LIBDIR and VARDIR layout violates the FHS. In fact, I never
have seen a samba installation that kept the settings from the
original Make file. Since every user installs the files where he wants
them to be, samba installations usually are the pure chaos.

I'd suggest changing the layout.

ETCDIR (/etc)
  smb.conf
  lmhosts
  printers.def
  smbpasswd (password file)
LIBDIR (/usr/local/samba/lib)
  codepages/ (code pages)
VARDIR (/var/log/samba)
  log.smb (maybe renamed to smblog)
  log.nmb (maybe renamed to nmblog)
/var/lock/[samba?] (lock files)

Would this layout prove sensible as a standard for "my" installation?
Who would do it differently? I'd appreciate any comments.

Thanks in advance.

Greetings
Marc

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Marc,
I like the samba-Directory-Layout: All Samba-Related stuff is under one
Directory.

Christian

Hi all

Thanks Mark for bringing up a long lost discussion.

Mark Harber wrote:
> I'd suggest changing the layout.
> 
> ETCDIR (/etc)
>   smb.conf
>   lmhosts
>   printers.def
>   smbpasswd (password file)
> LIBDIR (/usr/local/samba/lib)
>   codepages/ (code pages)
> VARDIR (/var/log/samba)
>   log.smb (maybe renamed to smblog)
>   log.nmb (maybe renamed to nmblog)
> /var/lock/[samba?] (lock files)
> 
> Would this layout prove sensible as a standard for "my"
installation?
> Who would do it differently? I'd appreciate any comments.
I also wonder why they use static directories in Makefile.in, although I
have not seen it in 2.0.0beta5 where they have used some kind of dynamic
code, although I still have to patch the Makefile.in. The problem is the
codepages that I feel is not read-only single-machine but read-only
architecture-independent therefore I made a patch to fix this problem.

Here is my patch, feel free to reuse it.

--- src-2.0.0beta5/source/Makefile.in   Thu Dec 31 02:36:40 1998
+++ src-2.0.0beta5-386linuxlibc6/source/Makefile.in     Thu Jan 14 10:06:36 1999
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 # we don't use sbindir because we want full compatibility with
 # the previous releases of Samba
 SBINDIR = @bindir@
+DATADIR = @datadir@
+ETCDIR = @sysconfdir@
 LIBDIR = @libdir@
 VARDIR = @localstatedir@
 MANDIR = @mandir@
@@ -38,10 +40,13 @@
 # or in smb.conf (see smb.conf(5))
 SMBLOGFILE = $(VARDIR)/log.smb
 NMBLOGFILE = $(VARDIR)/log.nmb
-CONFIGFILE = $(LIBDIR)/smb.conf
-LMHOSTSFILE = $(LIBDIR)/lmhosts
-DRIVERFILE = $(LIBDIR)/printers.def
-PASSWD_PROGRAM = /bin/passwd
+CONFIGFILE = $(ETCDIR)/smb.conf
+LMHOSTSFILE = $(ETCDIR)/lmhosts
+DRIVERFILE = $(ETCDIR)/printers.def
+
+# Because RHLinux5.2 wants it like this
+PASSWD_PROGRAM = /usr/bin/passwd
+
 # This is where smbpasswd et al go
 PRIVATEDIR = @privatedir@
 
@@ -55,7 +60,7 @@
 LOCKDIR = $(VARDIR)/locks
 
 # The directory where code page definition files go
-CODEPAGEDIR = $(LIBDIR)/codepages
+CODEPAGEDIR = $(DATADIR)/codepages
 
 # The current codepage definition list.
 CODEPAGELIST= 437 737 850 852 861 932 866 949 950 936

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When I run configure I use these options:

--prefix=/store/samba --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/log/samba
--datadir=/store/samba/lib --libdir=/store/samba/lib --with-privatedir=/etc
--with-swatdir=/store/samba/swat

At our system we use store, which is a system created to maintain and keep
different versions under different architectures in a hetrogeneous
network. More information about store is available at:
http://www.pvv.org/~arnej/store/storedoc.html

Inge