On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, David wrote:

 : I want to try out qmail.
Nice choice ;)

 : I found a qmail.deb package in the experimental section, but it depends on
 : libc6 and as people still seem to be having problems with that, I'm not
 : ready to upgrade.
 : 
 : So I'll install it myself, but I don't want to mess up my beautifully
 : upgradable debian 1.3.1 system, so I want to put qmail in /usr/local.
 : 
 : By default, qmail want to go in /var/qmail. Should I make a
 : /usr/local/var/qmail? I don't have a /usr/local/var already.

Uhm, most people say 'never put things that NEED to be writable anywhere
else then /var'. So I suggest you still use /var/qmail.

But.. I didn't try it, but I'm almost sure it WILL work in
/usr/local/anything. Just make sure the permission are okay (as stated in
qmail's INSTALL-file).

Remco

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