On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > The mail spool MUST be accessible through /var/mail AND /var/spool/mail, > > and spool files MUST take the form /var/{spool/}mail/$LOGNAME. Either > > /var/mail or /var/spool/mail, or both, MAY be symbolic links to another > > directory. > > That sounds good to me
And several others, I beleive. Perhaps a vote is in order? > > It is RECOMMENDED that /var/mail be the actual directory and > > /var/spool/mail be the symbolic link. At some point use of /var/spool/mail > > may become deprecated. > > Thats policy where it isnt needed Then it doesn't have to be included. I only put it in to placate all the "other UNIXen use /var/mail, so /var/spool/mail shouldn't even exist" type people. +-----------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | NoDomainName Networks | http://www.nodomainname.net | | AtDot E-mail Services | http://www.atdot.org | +-----------------------------+--------------------------------+