On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 01:54:24PM -0800, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> I would like to be more certain that nobody is going to be upset by
> any changes to the mail spool specification in FHS, so could you tell
> me your distribution's preference on this?
>
> a) /var/mail (FHS 2.0)
> b) /var/spool/mail (current Linux practice and FSSTND 1.x)
> c) something else
>
> There have been many permutations of each of the above options, so
> please let me know which one you prefer (and why).
>
> I'd like to finish this email thread as soon as possible -- I think
> this issue is more tied with distribution preference than many other
> issues because of the number of affected components.
I offered in email to you how I would expect Debian to switch to
/var/mail, which I am finally convinced based on the answers to the
thread I got. I'll repeat it here for the general viewing of all..
For new installations, /var/mail is easy. For upgrades we just check to
see if there is a /var/mail in base-files. If it exists, good. If not,
we symlink it to /var/spool/mail. It then becomes the sysadmin's
responsibility to swap directory and symlink if they want (I would) and
whether or not to keep around /var/spool/mail at all..
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