FC more FHS clashes (was: BIND and FHS)
Chris Adams
cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Mar 7 00:08:11 UTC 2006
Once upon a time, Tomasz Koczko <kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl> said:
> Current FC have much more FHS clashes with FHS.
> More examples:
>
> - many programs still uses /var/spool/mail,
I haven't read FHS, but changing from /var/spool/mail would be a major
backwards compatibility problem.
Also, just because programs reference /var/spool/mail doesn't mean it is
incorrect. Many programs simply fall back to /var/spool/mail if $MAIL
isn't set (I expect that at least some of them have other traditional
paths hard coded for compatibility).
> - many programs still uses /usr/sbin/sendmail
> instead /usr/lib/sendmail (acording to FHS on this path must be
> avaialible sendmail commandline compliant program and for save this
> complinace anly this path will be good use).
That's just dumb. Requiring a binary in /usr/lib is bad for many
reasons (multi-arch like x86_64 for example). Having a compatibility
symlink from /usr/lib/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail is not a bad idea
(but come on, it has been something like 10 years or more since
/usr/sbin was the recommended place for sendmail). Things should
reference /usr/sbin/sendmail as the proper place (/usr/lib/sendmail
being just for broken programs).
Does FHS say /usr/lib/sendmail should just exist or that it should be
used _instead of_ /usr/sbin/sendmail?
Also, again, some of your matches are also compatibility matches for
traditional paths on different OSes.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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