--- conf/carbon.amqp.conf.example.orig	2014-02-13 17:04:10.949705742 +0000
+++ conf/carbon.amqp.conf.example	2014-02-13 17:04:42.404703056 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # This is a configuration file with AMQP enabled
 
 [cache]
-LOCAL_DATA_DIR = 
+LOCAL_DATA_DIR = /var/db/carbon/whisper
 
 # Specify the user to drop privileges to
 # If this is blank carbon runs as the user that invokes it