Hi,

files that are managed by services directly usually go into /var/lib/SERVICE/, e.g. channels.conf is updated automatically or when you shuffle channels in menu. Files that are meant to be edited by root go into /etc. The configuration files in /etc are readonly to non-root users/services.

Cya, Ed

"cedric.dewijs@telfort.nl" cedric.dewijs@telfort.nl schrieb:

Hi All, I have build VDR systems based on arch linux and debian. On both, one half of the configuration files in is /etc/vdr, the other half in /var/lib/vdr. Why has the location /var/lib/vdr been choosen for the configuration files? Best regards, Cedric

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Hi Cedric,

Am Mittwoch, den 11.12.2013, 18:55 +0100 schrieb

I have build VDR systems based on arch linux and debian. On both, one half of the configuration files in is /etc/vdr, the other half in /var/lib/vdr. Why has the location /var/lib/vdr been choosen for the configuration files?

i guess you are using a Debian based distribution!?

In Debian we (the Debian VDR Team [1]) decided to use these paths about 10 years ago to comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) [2] as much as possible.

One of the requirements of the FHS is that it must be possible to mount /etc read-only, and this alone would not work with VDR because VDR modifies some of its config-files by itself during runtime (channels.conf is the best example i guess), for convenience we decided to add symlinks from /etc/vdr to to the files which are placed in /var/lib/vdr, so you basically will find all important cfgfiles in /etc/vdr/ but some of them are just symlinks to /var/lib/vdr/.

[1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-vdr-dvb/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

Regards, Thomas