[ircd-ratbox] [PATCH] ircd-ratbox 2.1.2: PID file location

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

While we are talking about file locations I see that ratbox-services
stores the PID file under RUNDIR (which is "rundir", which in turn is
based on "localstatedir", which in turn is by default under "var/")
while ircd-ratbox stores the PID file under ETCDIR (which is actually
under "etc/").

Hmmm... although the chance is high that I'm again get told that
this file is "kind of a configuration file and etc/ is slightly more
intuitive" for it ;-) I nevertheless propose the following change
against ircd-ratbox 2.1.2:

Index: include/config.h.dist
--- include/config.h.dist.orig	2005-05-17 18:21:44 +0200
+++ include/config.h.dist	2005-05-17 19:07:51 +0200
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 #define RPATH    ETCPATH "/ircd.rsa"	/* ircd rsa private keyfile */
 #define MPATH    ETCPATH "/ircd.motd"	/* MOTD file */
 #define LPATH    LOGPATH "/ircd.log"	/* ircd logfile */
-#define PPATH    ETCPATH "/ircd.pid"	/* pid file */
+#define PPATH    LOGPATH "/ircd.pid"	/* pid file */
 #define OPATH    ETCPATH "/opers.motd"	/* oper MOTD file */

 /* IGNORE_BOGUS_TS
Index: include/config.h
--- include/config.h.orig	2005-05-17 18:21:44 +0200
+++ include/config.h	2005-05-17 19:11:13 +0200
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 #define RPATH    ETCPATH "/ircd.rsa"	/* ircd rsa private keyfile */
 #define MPATH    ETCPATH "/ircd.motd"	/* MOTD file */
 #define LPATH    LOGPATH "/ircd.log"	/* ircd logfile */
-#define PPATH    ETCPATH "/ircd.pid"	/* pid file */
+#define PPATH    LOGPATH "/ircd.pid"	/* pid file */
 #define OPATH    ETCPATH "/opers.motd"	/* oper MOTD file */

 /* IGNORE_BOGUS_TS

Oh, btw, can anybody tell me why there is both config.h and a
config.h.dist in CVS? To me, one of the two should be removed at least
from CVS, I think...
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse at engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com