On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 08:18:45PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > To do this I suggest we ammend policy first by replacing all existing > > instances of /var/spool/mail with /var/mail and then changing the second > > paragraph of section 5.6 which currently reads > > I object to this proposed change on the following grounds: > > There are no reasons for us to change. The FHS made a gratuitous > change in this area. If someone wants to install software that really > does require /var/mail to exist they can make the symlink themselves. > > There are reasons for us not to change: it is hard to do right, as the > discussion has shown, and if we get it wrong we risk making people's > mail systems fall over or even losing mail. Creating a symlink is not hard. It does not lose mail. It does not harm the system. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Knghtbrd> xtifr - beware of james when he's off his medication =>
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