[forwarded] FHS pre-2.1 draft #2 on web site

[Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@pathname.com>]

New FHS draft.  If you have any comments, please use the FHS mailing
list (to avoid having two separate discussions) or you may send them
to quinlan@pathname.com.  Thanks.

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• To: fhs-discuss@ucsd.edu
• Subject: FHS pre-2.1 draft #2 on web site
• From: Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
• Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:10:11 -0700
• Message-id: <199906170210.TAA12246@sodium.transmeta.com>
• Reply-to: quinlan@transmeta.com

This draft uses the revised wording for /var/mail as discussed here
after the release of draft #1.  In addition, the /var/lib text was moved
so that it appears in the expected alphabetical order in the /var
section.

You might want to download and read the entire text if you haven't yet
read the first FHS 2.1 pre-draft, especially if you haven't read FHS
2.0 in a while.

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    5.8  /var/mail : User mailbox files

    The mail spool must be accessible through /var/mail and the mail spool
    files must take the form <username>.  /var/mail may be a symbolic link
    to another directory.

    User mailbox files in this location should be stored in the standard
    UNIX mailbox format.

    BEGIN RATIONALE

    The logical location for this directory was changed from /var/spool/mail
    in order to bring FHS in-line with nearly every UNIX implementation.
    This change is important for inter-operability since a single /var/mail
    is often shared between multiple hosts and multiple UNIX implementations
    (despite NFS locking issues).

    It is important to note that there is no requirement to physically move
    the mail spool to this location.  However, programs and header files
    should be changed to use /var/mail.

    END RATIONALE
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Get it at:
 
    http://www.pathname.com/fhs/fhs-2.1-pre-02.tar.gz

Dan

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