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A.4 Default installation locations

prefix

defaults to `/usr/local'; change using configure (see section Configuring and compiling the software).

exec-prefix

defaults to prefix; change using configure (see section Configuring and compiling the software).

GNATS installs tools, utilities, and files into the following locations.

exec-prefix/bin

send-pr

See section Submitting Problem Reports.

edit-pr

See section Editing existing Problem Reports.

query-pr

See section Querying the database.

exec-prefix/libexec/gnats

at-pr

See section Timely reminders.

check-db

See section Checking database health.

delete-pr

Tool for deleting PRs. Deprecated. Use the --delete-pr option of pr-edit instead (see section The edit-pr driver).

diff-prs

See section The diff-prs tool.

file-pr

See section Interface to pr-edit for filing new PRs.

gen-index

See section Regenerating the index.

gnatsd

The GNATS daemon.

gnats-pwconv

See section Converting old password files.

mail-query

See section Setting up mail aliases.

mkcat

See section Adding a problem category.

mkdb

See section Script for creating new databases.

pr-age

See section The pr-age tool.

pr-edit

See section The main PR processor.

queue-pr

See section Handling incoming traffic.

rmcat

See section Removing categories.

exec-prefix/lib/libiberty.a

The GNU libiberty library.

prefix/etc/gnats

`databases'

See section The `databases' file.

`defaults'

See section Overview of GNATS configuration.

`gnatsd.host_access'

See section The `gnatsd.host_access' file.

`gnatsd.user_access'

See section The `gnatsd.user_access' file.

prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp

`gnats.el'

`gnats.elc'

The Emacs versions of the programs send-pr, query-pr, edit-pr, and view-pr. See section The GNATS user tools. To change this directory you must change the lispdir variable in `Makefile.in'; see Configuring and compiling the software.

prefix/info

`gnats.info'

`send-pr.info'

The GNATS manuals, in a form readable by info (the GNU hypertext browser). See section `Reading GNU Online Documentation' in GNU Online Documentation.

prefix/man/man1

prefix/man/man8

man pages for all the GNATS tools and utilities.

See section The GNATS user tools.

Per-database directory

`gnats-adm'

Administration and configuration data files that define behaviour of the particular database. The files

`categories'

`submitters'

`responsible'

`states'

`classes'

`dbconfig'

`addresses'

`states'

`gnatsd.user_access'

`index'

(This file is created by GNATS.)

`current'

(This file is created by GNATS.)

exist here. See section Other database-specific config files, Administrative data files and Controlling access to databases.

`gnats-queue'

Incoming Problem Reports are queued here until the next iteration of `queue-pr -r' (see section Handling incoming traffic).

`pending'

If no default category is set, problem reports without a category are reassigned to the category `pending' and placed here pending intervention by GNATS administrators. See section GNATS administration.

`category'

Each valid category has a corresponding subdirectory in the database. All Problem Reports associated with that category are kept in that subdirectory.