Re: Debian, Linux, the FSSTND, the FHS and BSD

1996-08-12 Thread Dan Stromberg
Ian Jackson wrote: > The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes > the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements: > * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail. This is a positive thing. Both SVR4 and BSD 4.4 put it here. I think any co

Re: Debian, Linux, the FSSTND, the FHS and BSD

1996-08-12 Thread Christian Linhart
Michael Meskes writes: > Ian Jackson writes: > > The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes > > the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements: > > * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail. > > * /var/lib is renamed to /var/state (yes

Re: Debian, Linux, the FSSTND, the FHS and BSD

1996-08-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Michael Meskes) wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes > > the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements: > > * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail. > > * /var/lib is renamed to /var/state

Re: Debian, Linux, the FSSTND, the FHS and BSD

1996-08-12 Thread Michael Meskes
Ian Jackson writes: > The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes > the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements: > * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail. > * /var/lib is renamed to /var/state (yes, all of it). > * /var/lib/games

Re: Debian, Linux, the FSSTND, the FHS and BSD

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I lost this argument, chiefly through a combination of poor politics > on my part Ian, Don't feel bad that you're not good at politics yet - with my 39th birthday approaching I'm only just beginning to understand it. If you feel you've lost arguments throu

Re: Debian, Linux, the FSSTND, the FHS and BSD

1996-08-10 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What used to be the FSSTND group has changed composition somewhat, > and now includes a number of people from the BSD world. It set > itself the goal of producing a joint filesystem layout standard, > named the FHS. Actually, the vast majority of people