Comment 1 for bug 422530

Debian policy also expects log files to be under /var - so that is
another variable required to point to another location, and I expect
other distributions may have their own rules.

I will have a go at a configuration file - a text file so it can be
changed either automatically on installation, or set for a particular
distribution.

I'm thinking it should consist of variables pointing at directory
locations, which sets the locations of logs etc, either absolutely or
relatively.

The program will need to know where this configuration file is, I
believe in Debian configuration files are held under /etc/<program_name/
so in the top module vatstuff.py there will have to be a variable set to
the location of the configuration file - and this can be changed for
different distribution builds