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On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I think this should have the following settings:
> CONFIGURE_FILE=/etc/exim.conf
> BIN_DIRECTORY=/usr/local/sbin
Those look like rather personal preferences to me, rather than something
"standard" for Linux, so I am not convinced they should be in the system
configuration file.
> It would be better to be able to put some of the more useful-to-users
> commands in /usr/local/bin, but I'm not sure offhand which ones those
> are.
It rather depends on the level of sophistication of the users. I'm not
at all sure which ones, if any, come into this category, for run-of-the-
mill users. Would it not be better, in any case, to keep all the exim
stuff together and put symbolic links into /usr/local/sbin if that was
what you wanted?
> Also, ITYSBT that _'s are very unusual in Unix command names;
> -'s are more usual. Perhaps the exim_*db* commands should be renamed.
I believe it is far too late for that now.
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I think also:
> COMPRESS_COMMAND=/usr/bin/gzip
Is this the standard place where gzip lives on all Linux systems? I'm
loath to make a change if it is not.
> SPOOL_DIRECTORY=/var/spool/exim
Sigh. I had /var/spool/exim as the basic default once upon a time.
Someone persuaded me to change it to /usr/exim/spool. As this is an
administrator's decision rather than something basic to the OS, I do not
think it should be in the Linux Makefile.
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