Re: Building gnome-pilot

[Manish Vachharajani <mvachhar vger rutgers edu>]

On 18 Sep 1998, Bryan C. Andregg wrote:

> 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.
> 

Read what I mean not what I write :).  I meant to say
/var/spool/gpilotd/$USER.  I am still trying to figure out why we aren't
using the home directory though.  I wish someone would remind me :)

Manish Vachharajani
<mvachhar@vger.rutgers.edu>