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- Subject: Re: LINUX Filesystem standards .. oops :)
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 0:54:38 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- Message-Id: <9401272354.AA00158@jelal.north.de>
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- Juergen Lock writes:
- > 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
-
- actually /var/spool/batch was only used by a news system on TOS -> so
- we can forget that.
-
- > 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.)
-
- and the counter is only needed/used when you have no `real' uux, i.e.
- not with taylor. (i should have looked a the date...)
-
- just to complete the confusion ;)
- Juergen
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