Hi,
You misunderstood me. I am not asking the FHS to modified to
better fit my machine. I am saying that the reason mail is under
/var/spool on my machine has a technical reason, and that my machine
is not alone in this.
As a distribution maintainer/integrator, I am interested
Manoj Srivastava writes:
>
> I have a technical reason for wanting mail in /var/spool as
> well. I have things in /var/spool that tend to grow to huge sizes (as
> does /var/log, but I live with that).
>
> I genrally have /var/spool on a separate partition, and
> generally have differ
If /var/mail is allowed to be a symlink, it may be possible to ease
the transition with clever post-install scripts.
Policy could be written that says no mail package shall actually
include the /var/mail, but insead make it during install: a symlink if
/var/spool/mail exists, otherwise a real dir
Hi,
I have a technical reason for wanting mail in /var/spool as
well. I have things in /var/spool that tend to grow to huge sizes (as
does /var/log, but I live with that).
I genrally have /var/spool on a separate partition, and
generally have different policies for /var/spool t
I inadvertently replied privately, but I'll jump back in here.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mark D. Roth"
writ
es:
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| that HP-UX uses /usr/mail, look more closely. /usr/mail is a symlink
| to /var/mail.) I think IRIX does as well, but I dont currently have a
| login on an SGI to check
Having not seen the whole thing let me ask: why is /var/spool/mail NOT
okay? This is a good spot for it sense-wise and it is very common to
have spool off on another partition to minimize loss, etc. When I first
saw this in Debian I thought "wow someone did the right thing". And to
answer Manoj,
In our last exciting episode, Manoj Srivastava expounded thusly:
> What UNIX distributions do /var/mail ? DIGITAL UNIX has stuff
> in /usr/spool/mail/$USER; HPUX does /usr/mail/$USER, and Linux has
> always done /var/spool/mail/$USER. I note that POSIX.2 does not deign
> to specify the lca
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