Re: [Pki-devel] Request for better Dogtag 10 terminology . . .

The term "instance" makes sense in this context when we are talking specifically about either a single tomcat or a single apache instance, even if that instance happens to correspond to multiple subsystems. And this would make sense, because all of the subsystems within that instance would be started/stopped by a single init script, and they will share things like a password.conf file and a common nss database. In the proposed layout though, we have the possibility of the "instance" containing both an apache and a tomcat instance - and hence the casting around for a new name. Unless we plan on writing some hybrid init script, that allows us to start/stop both apache and tomcat instances at the same time (which is very unlikely in the near future - and probably a bad idea in any case), maybe we should not allow the "instance" to contain both apache and tomcat instances. Instead I suggest the following : /var/lib/pki/tomcat0 (for the ca, kra, ocsp, tks) /var/lib/pki/apache0 (for the ra, tps) I think I like tomcat0 and apache0 rather than "default" - it makes it clearer that this is an instance name and also the type of instance. Ade On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 13:25 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: