On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > > But then: How will we know which programs do not use /var/spool yet? > > The answer is very simple: Just remove the symlinks and see which programs > > break. Of course, this has to be done in *unstable*, where every > > program may break. > > > > So if a program breaks because it uses /usr/spool, *that* is a bug. > > how about this as a start: > > #!/bin/sh > > for i in /bin /sbin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/X11R6/bin [...etc...] ; do > for j in $i/* ; do > strings -a $j | grep -q "/usr/spool" && echo $j uses /usr/spool > done > done
here's what a similar loop run on my /usr/bin reports: # cd /usr/bin # for i in * ; do strings -a $i | grep -q "/usr/spool" && echo $i uses /usr/spool ; done Broken pipe epic4 uses /usr/spool mailserver uses /usr/spool Broken pipe ncftp uses /usr/spool nn uses /usr/spool nnbatch uses /usr/spool nncheck uses /usr/spool nngrep uses /usr/spool nnpost uses /usr/spool nntidy uses /usr/spool nnview uses /usr/spool Broken pipe pine uses /usr/spool strings: smath: Too many levels of symbolic links sortmail uses /usr/spool Broken pipe xemacs uses /usr/spool Broken pipe xemacs-20.2 uses /usr/spool the "broken pipe" messages are presumably from binaries with no strings in them. on my system, /usr/bin/smath is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/smath. /etc/alternatives/smath is a symlink to /usr/bin/smath. i suppose it's a good think i don't use smath for anything :-). smath is from staroffice. it's installed weirdly on my systems...i have it installed on kali.taz.net.au and have /usr/lib/StarOffice3.1 nfs mounted on my workstation siva.taz.net.au because kali has gobs of free disk space and i built siva with a way-too-small /usr partition a long time ago. it may be necessary for bug reports to be filed against the other packages - depends on whether they are written to only use /usr/spool or if the string is in there because they can use it as a second-choice alternative to /var/spool. craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
