From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 4 12:13:14 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 1D86937B409 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 5351 invoked by uid 100); 4 Jul 2001 19:13:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15171.27332.224349.575243@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:13:08 -0500 To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wrong directory struture in Qmail port? In-Reply-To: <20010704144212.E52663@mail.webmonster.de> References: <20010703213011.R1334-100000@gateway.bogus> <15170.18447.398379.296841@guru.mired.org> <20010704144212.E52663@mail.webmonster.de> 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 Karsten W. Rohrbach types: > Mike Meyer(mwm@mired.org)@2001.07.03 17:32:47 +0000: > > 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. > qmail should go in it's standard place, the whole bunch of files and > dirs under the /var/qmail hierarchy. if you plan to split it up, some > people on the qmail mailing list will probably hate you since the > potential problems that arise can not be recognized and/or fixed by the > qmail-literate folks anymore. having a fixed hierarchy in /var/qmail > makes sense because it is the same layout on all supported oses and > distributions -- call it standard. Doesn't the documentation talk about splitting things out via symlinks? I haven't read it thoroughly since I first installed qmail three years ago, but I vaguelly recall that. If so, that might be an acceptable alternative. Not that I'm planning on doing it, mind you - I'm reasonably happy with things the way they are. > besides the fact that if you split it up you violate dan's distribution > policy but that's another issue... Doesn't really apply here - qmail isn't distributed as a package. 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