[CF-Devel] Apartment in Scorn not really missing...

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:38:14PM -0500, Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:
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      The disappearing apartment turned out to be a change in
     
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      world permissions...
     
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      The maps/city/apartments directory has to be world
     
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      writeable...  Since I am running the maps straight out
     
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      of my cvs directory, I need to tweak some permissions.
     
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      Is this normal though?  I would have thought that the
     
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      server saved things to a different place than to the
     
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      master copies of the maps?
     
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      In general, does the server need the maps directories
     
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      and/or files to be writeable?
     
     No. No files/directories in $datadir should be written by server.
Files which are modified are stored in other directory (under
$localstatedir).

Usually $datadir is /usr/local/share (and maps are in
/usr/local/share/crossfire/maps) and $localstatedir is /var (and files
are written in /var/lib/crossfire/).

It seems it works OK for me. Maybe the "old layout" if used (as
configure option) may break things. Or something has been broken in
sources recently.

Greets,
	Jacek