14974 – Mailman home in /var doesn't seem right

Bug 14974 - Mailman home in /var doesn't seem right

Summary: Mailman home in /var doesn't seem right

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Todd Berman (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-02-02 10:53 UTC by Kevin N. Carpenter
Modified:	2003-05-13 22:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Kevin N. Carpenter 2003-02-02 10:53:59 UTC

Mail subscription list information is generally pretty precious.  I've always
thought of things in /var as non-critical, like log files.  Minor pain if you
lose them, but you could live without them.

I'm currently running with /var/mailman symlinked to /home/mailman - but find
myself fighting symlink problems with the web interface (mostly fixed now).

Thought I drop the suggestion to migrate this to /home prior to it being
unmasked for the first time.

Thanks for the consideration.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-07 13:26:12 UTC

What's the default for the mailman package (that is, if you didn't install it via the ebuild?)

I don't know anything about mailman, but I feel we should stick to defaults in situations like this.

Comment 2 Kevin N. Carpenter 2003-05-07 19:11:51 UTC

/home/mailman is the default.  Only constraint on that is that /home is NOT mounted nosuid.

Thanks!

Kevin C.

Comment 3 Todd Berman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-13 22:19:16 UTC

Changed the install dir to /home/mailman.

Please submit bugs to me if this causes problems as i dont have the ability to setup mailman and test this.