[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] OpenBSD Trusted Path Execution (TPE) compatibility?

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:28:26 -0400 
Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

> I install Mailman in /appl/mailman [where it belongs], right next
> to all my other subsystem-level applications.  ;-)

Next thing you know you'll be advocating /opt and other Sun-brain
damage.  

  ObRant: Isolated directory hierarchies for applications are
  DOS/Windows-like and make managing filesystem allocation a pain.

I prefer an FHS based install:

  $PREFIX=/var/lib/mailman
  templates go in /etc/mailman
  logs go in /var/log/mailman
  executables go in /usr/sbin (newlist, find_member, etc)
  CGIs go under /usr/lib/cgi-bin
  etc

Makes things easily manageable and in-line with the rest of the
system.  Happily the Debian Mailman package does this by default.
Damned nice job there actually.  <waves>

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J C Lawrence                                             claw@kanga.nu
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