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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