Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Why put paths file in /usr/lib/uucp?
Summary: why not?
Keywords: smail paths
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.154516.25493@eci386.uucp>
Date: 19 Sep 90 15:45:16 GMT
References: <1807@utoday.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
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In article <1807@utoday.UUCP> sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton) writes:
> I'm curious why the default on smail is to put the output from
> pathalis in /usr/lib/uucp, instead of /usr/lib/mail, or somewhere
> else.

Why not?  It seems to me that it was simply the author's personal
choice.  My personal choice is /usr/local/lib/smail.  (I also put the
rest of the smail2.5 stuff in there, including mkfnames and friends.)

A good choice on a Sun or SysVr4.0 would be /var/local/smail/paths,
since the paths file may vary in size a bit, and is more of an
intermediate, automatically generated, database, not a configuration
file per se.

> It seems strange, especially if your ``news'' user wouldn't normally
> be able to write in /usr/lib/uucp.

That's OK.  I do indeed run my map unpacker as "usenet", but make the
file writable by group "news".  One could easily have a user mail, or
smail, or just uucp or uucpadm, to do the unpacking.
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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