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Re: [tpop3d-discuss] Default tpop3d.conf
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Chris Lightfoot |
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Re: [tpop3d-discuss] Default tpop3d.conf |
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Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:35:15 +0100 |
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:01:09AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Minor point - tpop3d.conf claims it looks in /etc but ./configure has a
> default of CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc
>
> (./configure --sysconfdir=/etc seems to do it.)
Yeah. I don't like this, but it's the autoconf default,
and I think the `principle of least surprise' means that I
should accept the default. It's alluded to in the
changelog, and I've modified the man page slightly.
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