"Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> man hier should be a lot older than OpenBSD or whatever. I mean, really.
Unix-88 said that this sort of non-vendor provided stuff should go in
/opt/{vendor}/, but SunOS 4.1.x chose not to do that and few others do
even now. (SunOS 4's HIER(7) suggested /usr/local/ was for "locally
maintained software", and /var/ was "directory of files that tend to
grow or vary in size". The BSD4.4-derived OS's go further and suggest
that /var/ should be solely transient stuff)
Nowadays, I'm tending to build things self contained in
/opt/{product}/ and symlink appropriate things into /usr/local/*/.
For qmail on Solaris, I've been going for:
/opt/qmail/
alias/
bin/
boot/
control/
doc/
log -> var/log/qmail
man/
queue -> var/queue
sbin/
supervise/
users/
var -> /var/qmail
/var/qmail/queue/
/var/log/qmail/
/usr/local/man/*/* -> /opt/qmail/man/*/* (to aid use of man)
(as I consider my qmail configurations and binaries non-transient!)
supervise/ is a tricky one though - some bits in there are
configuration and some bits are transient status info. How would
supervise cope if the .../{process}/supervise/ subdirectories were
symlinks into /var/run/supervise/ ?
(control/ should arguably be in /etc/opt/qmail/..., as should alias/.)
Dan's right that it's a mess, for sure.
James.
