On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
> Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Erik Wasser wrote:
> >
> > > - The directorys /var/spool/mail and /var/lock/subsys are simple missing
> > > in an new instalition.
> >
> > rpm -q filesystem
> > rpm -V filesystem
>
> Why does /var/spool/mail belong to filesystem? Sendmail uses it, make
> it a part of the sendmail package.
>
> That certainly explains why I end up with empty directories after
> uninstalling various packages... their directory belongs to another,
> completely unrelated package! (/etc/midi, /etc/uucp, etc, etc seem to
> suffer from this problem as well -- at least in 6.0)
>
I think it's POSIX complaince but i'm not really sure. (it's redhat
inherited) do rpm -qa|less notice the first few packages..
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