[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#437357: Bug#437357: nagios2: questionable location of 'nagios' user's home directory

[Marc Haber]

tags #437357 confirmed
thanks

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:48:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 08:55:21PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> > 2) Change the home directory for the user 'nagios' from a location
> >    inside '/var/run' to one in, perhaps, '/home'. Though I do not know
> >    what the repercussions of that would be.
> 
> Probably /var/lib/nagios.

in late october, I discussed this on the developer mailing list and we
settled on changing the home directory to /var/lib/nagios. This needs
to be implemented in the package though.

Greetings
Marc

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