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On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 12:33, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> Just wandering, what are those ".keep" files for? |
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> Looks to me like a very ugly hack. |
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The .keep files are necessary since otherwise when merging a new version |
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and unmerging the old one, required empty dirs would be removed too. |
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This is the way gentoo solves this problem standardly. Just look for |
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.keep files all over your hd. |
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> Anyway, ebuild for qmail should not install them in the |
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> queue directory, for qmail-qstat to work properly. |
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Do you have real problems due to the .keep files? |
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> Also qmail rc file should be config-protected. |
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> As there's no config-protection on per file basis (am I right?) |
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> we should change it to: |
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> #!/bin/sh |
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> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ |
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> qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" |
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> with control/defaultdelivery containing; |
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> |dot-forward .forward |
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> ./.maildir/ |
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> It will also fix the bug in current rc file: "dor-forward and |
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> ./.maildir/ should be on SEPARATE lines. |
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Good idea ! I'll add that |
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> Gentoo rules :-) |
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