Re: [Queue-developers] Queue 1.40.1 beta released

[Werner G. K. <wer...@ya...>]

What are you talking about?

GNU Queue above 1.20 DOES NOT use NFS!

The spool directory is NOT SUPPOSED to be shared. This is why I moved it to
/usr/var.

Mike Castle wrote:

> NFS-shared Queue spool directory is "/usr/var/spool/queue"
>
> /usr/var/spool is not an appropriate place for this.
>
> /usr/var should *NOT* be nfs shared.  All var name spaces should be
> reserved for localstate information.
>
> Instead, use /usr/com/queue.
>
> For reference, the GNU Coding Standard:
>
> `sharedstatedir'
>      The directory for installing architecture-independent data files
>      which the programs modify while they run.  This should normally be
>      `/usr/local/com', but write it as `$(prefix)/com'.  (If you are
>      using Autoconf, write it as `@sharedstatedir@'.)
>
> Btw, I recommend that the profiles NOT go into sharedstatedir, as they are,
> in general, read only files.  Instead, they should go into into
> /usr/share/queue.  (Actually I'd strongly suggest
> /usr/share/queue/profiles.)
>
> Doing a make now...
>
> mrc
>
> PS: Oh yeah, the above was build with --prefix=/usr, but even account for
> s+/usr+/usr/local+, the same arguments still hold.
> --
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