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22.55 Version 2.4.0
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Released January, 1998

Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts

        - /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell

        - scripts including bashisms have to specify ‘/bin/bash’ as
          interpreter

        - scripts which create files in world-writable directories
          (e.g., in ‘/tmp’) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
          the directory

Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links

     symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same file
     extension as the referenced file

Updated section 3.3.6 Device files

     ‘/dev/tty*’ serial devices should be used instead of ‘/dev/cu*’

Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts in ‘/etc/init.d’

        - all ‘/etc/init.d’ scripts have to provide the following
          options: start, stop, restart, force-reload

        - the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
          the service

Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs

     cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should be
     installed into ‘/etc/cron.d’

Updated section 3.7 Menus

     removed section about how to register HTML docs to ‘menu’ (the
     corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications, has
     been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was obsolete)

New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration

     details about how the backspace and delete keys should be handled

New section 3.9 Environment variables

     no program must depend on environment variables to get a reasonable
     default configuration

New section 4.6 News system configuration

     ‘/etc/news/organization’ and ‘/etc/news/server’ should be supported
     by all news servers and clients

Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Window System

        - programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
          as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package

        - if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be
          linked against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif
          library

Updated section 4.9 Games

     games for X Windows have to be installed in ‘/usr/games’, just as
     non-X games