On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>A queue in /var is suboptimal because it partially defeats the purpose
>of the deployment model - it leaves per-machine state to be corrupted,
>backed up, hacked, etc.
>
How is printing done? How do cron jobs mail when a services home
directory may not exist and the shell is nologin? Not trying to poke
holes as much as think things out-loud. I wonder if queues should go
under /var at all?
Actually, I think I am needing what the deployment model is and what it
is for... that would help me get my head around it and what would need
to be done. I may have a solution to the conundrum, but it needs a
better idea of what is wanted.
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