From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 3 15:32:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F24237B405 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:32:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 78490 invoked by uid 100); 3 Jul 2001 22:32:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15170.18447.398379.296841@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:32:47 -0500 To: Nuno Teixeira Cc: Subject: Re: Wrong directory struture in Qmail port? In-Reply-To: <20010703213011.R1334-100000@gateway.bogus> References: <20010703213011.R1334-100000@gateway.bogus> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nuno Teixeira types: > I've installed qmail port to test it and I noted that the default install > directory is /var/qmail/. I know that we can change the PREFIX variable on > that port, but isn't it against FreeBSD directory structure to put > executables in /var partition? Shouldn't be the default partition > /usr/local or something? This isn't a -stable issue; it really should have gone to -questions, or even -ports. The answer is some yes, some no. Parts of /var/qmail should go in PREFIX if you follow the hier man page. Others belong in /var. The choices would be to put it all in /var (the qmail way), all in PREFIX/qmail - which as you note you can do, or split the port up into lots of parts. The last one is a lot of work, and if you do it I'd be glad to help test it. Of the other two, I prefer having my mail queue in /var, so the first one seems best. Does that make sense? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message