Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> New systems would need to have a /var/spool/mail -> /var/mail symbolic >> link for about two years.
Erik Troan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, forever. Red Hat is promising an upgrade path for a lot longer then two > years -- we've already provided upgradeable distributions for 3.5. I said "new systems", not systems that are being upgraded. > You seem to be ignoring the upgrade issue. Allowing in-place upgrades > necessetates /var/spool/mail to exist in some form. I'm not ignoring it, I just don't think it's a problem. If today's in-place upgrades don't allow /var/spool/mail to be a symbolic link, then they are broken. The same would be true for /var/mail on a system that still mounted the spool on /var/spool/mail. Dan