On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Ian Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter 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.
IMHO, the discussion has not shown it is hard to do it right. The proposal is to use /var/mail for *new* systems (those installed from base2_2.tgz) and keep /var/spool/mail for old systems. There will be no automatic "mv". [ Note that I'm not particularly disappointed that someone objects this proposal, I think we could well wait for FHS 2.1 to be official before going any further ]. Thanks. -- "76553449e9cb6d42366f37208092f565" (a truly random sig)
