} [copied to the list for anyone else who cares to comment]
}
} 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
All the copies I build use /usr/sbin as the BIN_DIRECTORY
} 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.
Exim should certainly be in a sbin directory, whether its
/usr/local/sbin or /usr/sbin is a matter of debate - but I install
exim as the only mailer on a system and so it goes in the system
directories rather than the local ones.
} > 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?
I put everything in /usr/sbin and link mailq to /usr/bin and sendmail
to /usr/sbin and /usr/lib (the last not because its right, but
because other programs are wrong!).
} > 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.
Either /bin or /usr/bin. Red Hat (which I use) has it in /bin
}
} > 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.
This goes hand in hand with the bin directories - if you put the
whole lot under /usr/exim then spool may go there too. I put
everything in /usr/sbin and usr /var/spool/exim. This matters little
to me - I over ride all the defaults in the build anyhow!
Nigel.
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