On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:12:00PM -0500, Denis Voitenko wrote:
> > Because most of the files under the qmail tree are host-specific.
> > Obviously, the queue is, but even the binaries are since they have
> > UID's built in.
>
> What does that have to do with the location of files? I run Squid proxy as a
> user squid that is a member of squid group. And it is located in
> /usr/local/squid
Files in /usr/local are often distributed via NFS to hosts running the
same OS. The qmail/queue structure ist not usable via NFS and has to
be local to each machine running qmail. However this can be accomplished
by e.g. with symbolic links.
Also each machine trying to make use of the NFS distributed qmail binaries
has to have all the qmail password entries with exact the same UIDs and
the NFS mount has to allow execution of setuid programs.
To avoid this problems for unexperienced admins DJB probably decided
the best place for qmail is in /var.
\Maex
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