On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> > Ten years.
>
> Are you serious? The Linux community has already made larger changes
> in far far less time. We're talking about modifying one or two lines
> in 10 or 20 source packages (like src RPMs).
You seem to be ignoring the upgrade issue. Al
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> New systems would need to have a /var/spool/mail -> /var/mail symbolic
> link for about two years.
No, forever. Red Hat is promising an upgrade path for a lot longer then two
years -- we've already provided upgradeable distributions for 3.5.
Erik
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Given that, it is better to use /var/mail, because the mail inbox
> directory is *not* a spool (a daemon transshipment point -- the mail
> *spool* is /var/spool/mqueue.) Putting it under /var/spool causes
> disk space management problems.
Moving it on
On 20 Jan 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> 1. totally revert, drop /var/mail, and specify /var/spool/mail
> 2. partially revert, /var/spool/mail is a directory and /var/mail
> must be a symbolic link to it
> 3. allow a /var/spool/mail directory, provided that /var/mail is
> a symbolic link
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