[clue-tech] procmail: /tmp vs /var/tmp

[David Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> FHS seems to imply that /var/lock is for devices...
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLOCKLOCKFILES
> 
> I can't tell if that's what they're implying, or if they're just writing 
> a big paragraph about devices to tell you the lock file naming convention.

I think that's some baggage from UUCP days.  Seems like that kind of 
device locking is rare these days.

FWIW, mailman on Debian puts its locks in /var/lock.  I'd say that's 
what you want.  How you arrange the permissions depends on how procmail 
writes/rewrites it's locks.

Dave