Re: LINUX Filesystem standards .. oops :)

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

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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