Setting the location of proc independent of configdir
Ian G Batten
ian.batten at uk.fujitsu.com
Thu Nov 15 05:53:34 EST 2007
On 15 Nov 07, at 1045, Simon Matter wrote:
>> I was interested to see someone suggesting putting proc into tmpfs.
>> That's slightly painful if /var/imap is in ZFS: the order in which
>> mounts take place means you can't just put /var/imap/proc tmpfs
>> into /
>> etc/vfstab if /var/imap is coming in through ZFS. A glance at the
>> source code says that proc is hardwired to be configdir/proc. Would
>> it be worth considering making procdir: a configuration option, so
>> that it can easily be put somewhere which isn't under configdir:?
>> Indeed, for a lot of people, just shoving it in /tmp/cyrusproc would
>> be a good option.
>
> I didn't test but doesn't a symlink work?
Yes, it does (just tried it on a development system).
ian
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