[fhs-discuss] tighten the use and intention of the "/var" hierarchy

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 16:43 +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Well, in reality, news, mail or crontab files are there for long :-(
> Of course, this is different for postfix, at or lpd under /var/spool.
> 
> I know sysadmins who keep the mailboxes of their users under
> /var/spool/mail 
> This is then not volatile, at least for the people whose mailbox is
> there ;-)
> 
> Throughout the years, tools are using /var/spool for different things. I
> don't know whether we can influence their choices there.

Well but all this is then abuse of spool, as this is AFAIU really just
for volatile/temporary/currently processed data.


Cheers,
Chris.
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