File layout

[Peter Nitschke]

Hi,

That is all fine, my query was regarding the :
RedHat Linux RPM package version 3.22-12

I don't see a problem with the other options being done to suit the
relevant OS:
Solaris/Other Linux/other Unix version 3.22-12
Debian package
Solaris/Other Unix useful files & scripts

But then you use the tar ball anyway...

Peter



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On 27/08/2002 at 8:52 AM Quentin Campbell wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
>> Sent: 23 August 2002 19:29
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: File layout
>>
>>
>> At 19:13 23/08/2002, you wrote:
>> >I have been playing with MailScanner and Spam Assassin on a relay
>> >server before my main mail server.
>> >
>> >First, is there a reason that the RPM doesn't use eg
>> /etc/mailscanner
>> >for all the conf files instead of the current
>> >/usr/local/MailScanner/etc  ?
>>
>> Not particularly.
>>
>> >I can move the files and get it to work ok, but curious why it is
>> >different to what I am used to.
>>
>> Just 'cause that's the way I built it :-)
>>
>
>Julian
>
>Your convention of locating stuff under /usr/local and /local is good,
>standard, Unix practice! I hope you do not change it.
>
>This keeps applications isolated from the operating system. In a
>carefully set up and partitioned Unix system it is possible to install a
>new operating system without having to re-install and re-confgure a
>whole corpus of applications. The /usr/local stuff is normally
>automounted from /local (or similar).
>
>If you have your applications spread around the system (/etc, /usr,
>/usr/bin, etc) then they have to be re-installed when the OS is
>upgraded.
>
>This may not seem a big deal on a "simple" mail hub where the main
>applications are Sendmail + MS + SA + some anti-virus product. It is
>very, very important on a large Unix time-sharing system (as we run
>here) where we have many scores of large and complex packages installed.
>
>
>For this reason I prefer installing from the MS tar ball rather than the
>RPM version.
>
>Quentin
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