Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 16:05:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610160014.10319A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <19980610153201.A10982@mstar.astro.psu.edu>
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Seeing that is not part of the base install, I'd recommend
/usr/local/qmail.
I use /var/qmail, mainly for consistency w/ man pages in case anyone else
needs to do maintenance on it. Then again, a symlink would do just as
well...
It does some spooling in its directory (here /var/qmail/queue), and that
certainly can be considered transient traffic, but it would be a PITA to
break that directory out of ${PREFIX}/qmail.
Kevin
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Dom Mitchell wrote:
>
> > o qmail likes to be installed in /var/qmail. Should I stick with this
> > or put it in ${PREFIX}/qmail?
>
> Thus sayeth hier(7):
>
> /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
>
> Qmail (that is, its binaries, docs, etc.) isn't even close to that
> description, and /var is not under /usr/local, so I am quite opposed
> to it going there. I like ${PREFIX}/qmail just fine... anyone have
> any opposition to it?
>
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