sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton) (09/19/90)
I'm curious why the default on smail is to put the output from pathalis in /usr/lib/uucp, instead of /usr/lib/mail, or somewhere else. It seems strange, especially if your ``news'' user wouldn't normally be able to write in /usr/lib/uucp. Again, I'm just sort of curious what the thinking was on this. -- Sean Fulton sean@utoday.com UNIX Today! (516) 562-5430 /* The opinions expressed above are not those of my employer */
woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) (09/19/90)
In article <1807@utoday.UUCP> sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton) writes: > I'm curious why the default on smail is to put the output from > pathalis in /usr/lib/uucp, instead of /usr/lib/mail, or somewhere > else. Why not? It seems to me that it was simply the author's personal choice. My personal choice is /usr/local/lib/smail. (I also put the rest of the smail2.5 stuff in there, including mkfnames and friends.) A good choice on a Sun or SysVr4.0 would be /var/local/smail/paths, since the paths file may vary in size a bit, and is more of an intermediate, automatically generated, database, not a configuration file per se. > It seems strange, especially if your ``news'' user wouldn't normally > be able to write in /usr/lib/uucp. That's OK. I do indeed run my map unpacker as "usenet", but make the file writable by group "news". One could easily have a user mail, or smail, or just uucp or uucpadm, to do the unpacking. -- Greg A. Woods woods@{eci386,gate,robohack,ontmoh,tmsoft}.UUCP +1-416-443-1734 [h] +1-416-595-5425 [w] VE3-TCP Toronto, Ontario CANADA
jpr@murphy.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (09/21/90)
In article <1807@utoday.UUCP> sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton) writes: >I'm curious why the default on smail is to put the output from >pathalis in /usr/lib/uucp, instead of /usr/lib/mail, or somewhere >else. > >It seems strange, especially if your ``news'' user wouldn't normally >be able to write in /usr/lib/uucp. Neither "news" nor any other user on your system would normally be writing to /usr/lib/uucp. Where things are put is somewhat arbitrary, and frequently just a habit. But if it's uucp/uucico/uux that are pushing along the file transfers, the mail, and the news, why not have the paths file in /usr/lib/uucp? -- Jean-Pierre Radley jpr@jpradley CIS:72160,131