On Saturday 19 April 2003 4:51 pm, David Phillips wrote: > Jay Kline writes: > > qmail does not follow the traditional unix-like structure in where > > things are stored > > See this for an explanation of why qmail installs in /var by default: > > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/install.html#whyvar I didnt say there was no reason for what he did, I am just stating it is not typical. When a new user is getting exposed to a unix envionment, they expect things to be more consistant. His is just "different" (not bad). > > how things are started. > > What are you talking about? qmail can be run from init.d, rc.d or whatever > startup method your system uses. Of course, it is much more reliable and > convient to run qmail (and any other daemon) under daemontools, but this is > certainly not a requirement. The default install puts things in inittab. I would consider that unusual. Again, not bad, but different. Of course you can change things, but that is not the default. > > It may be secure, but > > has not been updated in several years. > > So? Does it need to be? Dan doesn't feel the need to keep releasing new > versions with more bloat. He writes software that works correctly, so > users don't need to keep upgrading for bugfixes. When I see that a product (any product, for that matter) has not had any active development since 1998, I take that to mean either the author no longer cares anymore, or the author assumes the product is perfect and requires no updates. I would think its a little self centered of anyone to think they can write perfect software. Jay _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list