On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:05:16AM +1100, Giles Lean wrote:
>
> [I'm sure this has been discussed before. If someone is better than I
> am at nagivating the archives and can find a discussion, please point
> me at it. Thanks.]
>
> One regular sticking point for user (rather than administrator)
> acceptance of qmail is that all the .qmail-* files a user creates go
> in $HOME.
>
> Personally I've "just got used to it", but wonder if anyone has worked
> out if there is a good reason for this that would not be addressed by
> putting the per-user control files into a subdirectory?
>
> Perhaps a possible syntax could be:
>
> .qmail file, as currently used
> .qmail-/ directory, containing files as currently named but with
> the extra "/" e.g. $HOME/.qmail-/default
Check out the -/ option of qmail-pw2u, is quite close to what you want :)
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
