Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0
Wichert writes:
>> Can we agree our preference is /var/mail, is stated in the
>> current FHS?
Manoj Srivastava <<srivasta@golden-gryphon.com> writes:
> While the new FHS is trying for conformance with other unices, we
> should also consider rtadition [...]
This is not quite the case. FHS 2.0, like previous versions, aims for
somewhere between best practice and the common (Linux) practice.
Mostly Linux, actually, because Linux generally has a much cleaner
filesystem hierarchy layout.
The mail is a "spool" vs. "not a spool" argument has been advocated on
both sides, sometimes quite passionately, so I think it's best to
ignore it.
The ultimate question is: where should mail programs *look* for mail:
/var/mail or /var/spool/mail. It doesn't matter if they end up
traversing a symbolic link, but they should all look in the same
place. (This should also be _PATH_MAILDIR.)
Most mixed-Unix sites already end up linking from /var/mail to
/var/spool/mail or the other way around.
- Dan
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