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From: jpr@murphy.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Why put paths file in /usr/lib/uucp?
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.180212.6980@murphy.com>
Date: 20 Sep 90 18:02:12 GMT
References: <1807@utoday.UUCP>
Organization: Murphy & Durieu
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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.
>
>It seems strange, especially if your ``news'' user wouldn't normally
>be able to write in /usr/lib/uucp.

Neither "news" nor any other user on your system would normally be writing
to /usr/lib/uucp.

Where things are put is somewhat arbitrary, and frequently just a habit. But if
it's uucp/uucico/uux that are pushing along the file transfers, the mail, and
the news, why not have the paths file in /usr/lib/uucp?
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