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- Subject: Re: LINUX Filesystem standards
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 23:35:14 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <9401181445.AA14977@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com>; from "Claus Brod" at Jan 18, 94 3:45 pm
- Message-Id: <9401202235.AA00266@jelal.north.de>
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- Claus Brod writes:
-
- > A general remark: I think we already learnt from the discussion so
- > far that we should start with just a few conventions on the
- > file system layout, i.e. some kind of minimum subset. For one thing,
- > we probably don't need much more, and it's also easier to get a
- > general agreement for. Maybe we should also try to turn the discussion
- > upside down: What kind of file system structure are expected by
- > programs and packages that have already been ported or are currently
- > being ported? Maybe we should take care of their requirements first.
-
- here are a few things i can think of...
-
- 1. there is a TOS port of nn (newsreader) that some people still use
- with MiNT, it (and a few other programs) look for environment variables
- $ETC to find a passwd (with backslashes in homedirs :/ ) and $USR to
- find $USR/lib/nn, $USR/lib/news, $USR/spool/news, etc. i suggest
- setting USR=u:\\var and making /var/lib/{mail,nn} links into /usr...
- (not /var/lib/news because it contains growing files.) /var/lib/mail
- is for smail 2.5, it also uses /var/spool/batch for batch-smtp and
- of course /var/spool/mail. (and the batch-smtp stuff keeps a counter
- in /var/lib/uucp, hmpf. :) ok so don't symlink that into /usr.)
-
- 2. taylor uucp (at least my port) searches its main (taylor-style)
- config file in /usr/local/conf/uucp/, you can configure the locations
- of everything else from there. defaults are /usr/lib/uucp for HDB-style
- config files (Systems, Dialers, Devices...), /usr/spool/{uucp,uucppublic}
- for spool, logs, lockfiles etc. and /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin as
- search path for uux jobs. (rnews, rmail, r*smtp...) i just linked
- /usr/spool -> /var/spool.
-
- 3. i also have /local for /usr/local, should we keep that? (i first
- had /usr all GEMDOS and that way local could still be seperate...)
- i.e. just a symlink /local -> /usr/local is enough.
-
- 4. elvis keeps preserved files in /usr/preserve, symlink that into /var?
- (yup i see linux does it too.)
-
- hmm did i forget something important? :)
-
- enough... cheers,
- Juergen
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