Re: Building gnome-pilot

[bryan redhat com (Bryan C. Andregg)]

On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:20:26 -0400 (EDT), <mvachhar@vger.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> > Also I will try the method of creating .REQ files somewhere, that we
> > discussed some time back, to ensure requests survice a gpilotd kill.
> 
> These should probably go in a hidden directory where user files are
> spooled.  Did we ever finally decide on where spooled files go?  Why in
> /var/spool/$USER and not in the users home dir?  I would prefer the users
> home dir, but we had this discussion and I don't remember the outcome.

/var/spool/$USER is the worst possible place. If you are planning to create a
spool directory of the notion of mail spools and news spools, then make it
/var/spool/gpilot/$USER. If you are more of a qmail mind frame than a sendmail
mind frame then make it $HOME/gpilot.

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                Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg@redhat.com> * Red Hat Software

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