[IntelMQ-users] Question: Changing default configuration path for non-deb installations

[Kamil Mankowski]

Hi all,

I wanted to ask regarding an idea from the issue 
https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/issues/2349

At the moment, the Debian package has the default configuration path
in /etc/intelmq/ and keeps logs in /var/log/intelmq/, however the pure 
Python package prefers /opt/intelmq/etc/ and /opt/intelmq/var/log/

This difference is introduced during building DEB packages and described 
here: 
https://intelmq.readthedocs.io/en/develop/user/configuration-management.html#configuration-paths

I want to suggest the unification, and keeping the first version (Linux 
standard paths, /etc/intelmq and /var/log/intelmq/) as the default in 
any case. The second schema would be still available as well as custom 
path, after setting the appropriate environment variable.

This change could affect development environments and installations made 
with Python packages. For Docker and Debian packages, there would be no 
changes.

Do you feel it makes sense, or the impact (or other reason) would be too 
big?

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Best regards,
Kamil Mankowski
CERT.at GmbH
www.cert.at