A.4 Default installation locations

prefix

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

exec-prefix

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

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

exec-prefix/bin

send-pr

See Submitting Problem Reports.

edit-pr

See Editing existing Problem Reports.

query-pr

See Querying the database.

exec-prefix/libexec/gnats

at-pr

See Timely reminders.

check-db

See Checking database health.

delete-pr

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

diff-prs

See The diff-prs tool.

file-pr

See Interface to pr-edit for filing new PRs.

gen-index

See Regenerating the index.

gnatsd

The gnats daemon.

gnats-pwconv

See Converting old password files.

mail-query

See Setting up mail aliases.

mkcat

See Adding a problem category.

mkdb

See Script for creating new databases.

pr-age

See The pr-age tool.

pr-edit

See The main PR processor.

queue-pr

See Handling incoming traffic.

rmcat

See Removing categories.

exec-prefix/lib/libiberty.a

The gnu libiberty library.

prefix/etc/gnats

databases

See The databases file.

defaults

See Overview of gnats configuration.

gnatsd.host_access

See The gnatsd.host_access file.

gnatsd.user_access

See 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 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 Reading GNU Online Documentation (GNU Online Documentation).

prefix/man/man1

prefix/man/man8

man pages for all the gnats tools and utilities.

See 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 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 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 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.