Hi all,

What would be a good directory to use for spooled data when using Koha packages?

Ideally, I’d like to use /var/spool/koha/<koha-instance>/. However, only the root user is about to write to that directory.

This isn’t really a problem for source installs or dev installs, since we control our own permissions, but it’ll be a problem for package installs. I suppose a person could use /tmp, but that’s not really appropriate, since /tmp isn’t necessarily persistent. You might have a /tmp with tmpfs, have a server reboot, and then lose your spooled data.

The answer to me is to allow the koha-instance user to write to /var/spool/koha/<koha-instance> as well. However, I want to hear what other people think, and hear about any alternative directory ideas.

Cheers,

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

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