Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 12:50:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/inn/pkg PLIST Message-ID: <199505051950.MAA09447@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505051836.LAA01898@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at May 5, 95 11:36:58 am
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[Moved to -hackers] > > Let me rephrase this. > > What does renaming /var/spool/news to /var/news fix? > > Are we just doing it to follow our OWN convention? > > /usr/spool/news was broken because /usr/spool was stupid for diskless machines > /usr/spool/mail was broken because /usr/spool was stupid for diskless machines > > /var/spool/mail was NOT broken See below, BSD changed this long ago. > /var/spool/news is NOT broken Agreed. > > /var/mail is stupid, but it was done in the 4.4 distribution, so we leave it > as is because most programs will look there these days when > auto-configuring It was done before 4.4, this goes back to Net/2 and possibly farther, /var/mail is not a spool area as it is an end point for mail. > /var/news is stupid, we're doing it ourselves, we'll have to fix every piece > of news related software that looks for /var/spool/news and we're > just making porting and maintenance that much more of a pain. > > Again, what are we fixing? Agreed. And /var/spool/news is a spool area, it has both incoming and outgoing data keep in there that is handled by daemons. > We need to look at the cost benefit ratio of making gratuitous changes. > > Why are we trying to make FreeBSD = !BSD? If I wanted to run !BSD, I'd run > Linux (vomit). Be carefull it what you label FreeBSD change and what you label CSRG changes. It was CSRG that moved /usr/spool/mail to /var/mail. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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