I am developing a daemon that needs to store lots of application data, and I noticed that on my system (Fedora 15), there is a /usr/local/etc
directory.
I've decided to install my daemon to /usr/local/bin
, and I need a place for my config files.
I didn't see this on Wikipedia. Is this non-standard or is this in fact the standard place for programs installed to /usr/local/bin
to store config files?
Reason being, I want to market this to sys-admins, and getting something like this wrong is not a great selling-point...
/etc/myapp
? If I were looking to change a config, it'd be the first place I would look./usr/local/bin
->/usr/local/etc
), but conventions win in this case.