Mate Wierdl writes:
> I thought the sysadm is supposed to write 9 numbers in a file like
> control/ids
That was a different proposal. The disadvantage was supposed to be that
it wouldn't work with scripts that change uids in the whole filesystem.
But it's a waste of time to discuss how this should work, if the main
justification for it is incorrect speculation about Redhat's needs.
Donnie Barnes told me that install-time uid configuration was fine.
But if that is fine, then putting qmail under /var has to be now their
main objection---which cannot be a strong one. Afterall, this is a
pretty good idea to have qmail under one dir, and then make symlinks.
This would take care of installations not having a package manager;
they would have an easy way to find the files.
As for FHS: it was made w/o putting qmail in the picture.
Mate
