Path Macros

The macros in the sample path_macros.cfg configuration file below are for specifying directory and file paths.  You would use these to indicate the location of, for example, the mail and printing directories, mail alias files, NIS files and directories, paths to log files, etc.

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// path macros - directory & file paths
 
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
// standard dir macros
 
maildir
#if solaris
                /var/mail
#elif debian
                /var/mail
#else
                /var/spool/mail
#endif
 
mqueue          /var/spool/mqueue
 
#if firenze
crontabs        /var/spool/cron
#else
crontabs        /var/spool/cron/crontabs
#endif
 
#if solaris
printspool      /var/spool/lp/requests
                /var/spool/print
                /usr/lp/tmp
                /var/lp/tmp
#endif
 
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
// local dir macros
 
#if mailmanserver
 
mailmandir      /opt/mailman
mmdir           =mailmandir
 
mailmanbindir   =mmdir/bin
mmbindir        =mailmanbindir
 
mailmanlistdir  =mmdir/lists
mmlistdir       =mailmanlistdir
 
#endif  // mailmanserver
 
usrlocal
#if solaris
                /opt/local
#elif linux
                /usr/local
#else           // all the other oses we don't directly support
                /usr/local
#endif
 
preciousdir     /usr/local/etc/precious
 
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
// standard filepath macros
 
aliases
#if solaris
                /etc/mail/aliases
#elif linux
                /etc/aliases
#endif
 
dumpdates       /etc/dumpdates
 
#if solaris
auto_direct     /etc/auto_direct
exports         /etc/dfs/dfstab
fstab           /etc/vfstab
#endif
 
#if linux
auto_direct     /etc/auto.direct        // ???
exports         /etc/exports
fstab           /etc/fstab
#endif
 
passwd          /etc/passwd
group           /etc/group
shadow          /etc/shadow
 
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
// local filepath macros
 
nisdir          /etc/NIS
nisbakdir       /usr/local/etc/precious/nis
 
nispasswd       =nisdir/passwd
nisgroup        =nisdir/group
nisnetgroup     =nisdir/netgroup
nisaliases      =nisdir/aliases
nisautohome     =nisdir/auto.home
nishosts        =nisdir/hosts
 
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
// logpath macros
 
 
#include [/pikt/bin/pikts < /pikt/lib/configs/macros/logs_system_macros.cfg |
          awk '/^#/ {print; next}; /^[A-Z]/ {print " "; next};
              {print $1 " " $2}']
 
          awk '/^#/ {print; next}; /^[A-Z]/ {print " "; next};
              {print $1 " " $2}']
 
#include [/pikt/bin/pikts < /pikt/lib/configs/macros/logs_local_macros.cfg |
          awk '/^#/ {print; next}; /^[A-Z]/ {print " "; next}; {print $1 " " $2}']
 
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For more examples, see Samples.