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Linux specific paths.h: /var/spool/mail->/var/mail



Hi,

we've had a short discussion three months ago about changing
_PATH_MAILDIR from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail which is in accordance 
with FHS version 2.0.  I exchanged some emails with Daniel Quinlan
(FHS maintainer) and he concluded:
"It should be changed to /var/mail.  FHS 2.1 will continue to specify
 /var/mail.

 In addition, FHS 2.1 may require a compatibility symbolic link
 /var/spool/mail -> /var/mail.  The symbolic link is only for backward
 compatibility and will not to used by FHS compliant software.  Also,
 that symbolic link will be slated for removal in late 1999 or early
 2000."

Therefore I propose the appended change for glibc 2.1.

I don't think that this patch causes much problems since most MUAs and 
MTAs don't look at <paths.h> but check/ask themselves for the location 
of the mail path.

Andreas

1998-08-12  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h (_PATH_MAILDIR): Change to
	/var/mail in accordance with FHS 2.0.
	Reported by Javier Kohen <root@jkohen.tough.com.ar> [PR libc/639].

--- sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h.~1~	Tue Jul 21 16:51:47 1998
+++ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h	Wed Aug 12 17:02:21 1998
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 #define	_PATH_KLOG	"/proc/kmsg"
 #define	_PATH_KMEM	"/dev/kmem"
 #define	_PATH_LASTLOG	"/var/log/lastlog"
-#define	_PATH_MAILDIR	"/var/spool/mail"
+#define	_PATH_MAILDIR	"/var/mail"
 #define	_PATH_MAN	"/usr/man"
 #define	_PATH_MEM	"/dev/mem"
 #define	_PATH_MNTTAB	"/etc/fstab"


-- 
 Andreas Jaeger   aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de    jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de
  for pgp-key finger ajaeger@alma.student.uni-kl.de


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