[vdr] Re: Suggest to move config/var files

[Lauri Tischler <lauri.tischler@efore.fi>]

Martin Hierling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I only want to suggest moving all !video files from /video to other
> locations by default. 
> 
> There are mainly two reasons to do so:
> 1. according to Linux filesystem standard configs belog to /etc/, so a guess
> would be /etc/vdr or /etc/sysconfig/vdr and some other data like
> epg/id3cache should resist in /var/spool/vdr or /var/vdr
> 2. to get my vdr quiet i installed everything on a compact flash card
> (256MB) and put /video into the automountd. So the harddrive can be shut
> down after 30secs. And writing epg or mp3 cache files there allways fires up
> my harddisk. That also requires the point taken some mails down (cache the
> disk usage for menudisplay).

I would like to add, that any plugin scripts, like m*.sh etc.. should
go to the same place, instead of PATH.