Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd like to propose that for now the FHS is changed to read > > "The mail spool area location is undefined. It is guaranteed that both > /var/mail and /var/spool/mail point to this mail spool area if the system > has a mail spool. The preferred reference name is /var/mail. > > [Rationale: /var/mail is the only name available on some other modern Unix > platforms. /var/spool/mail is the older Linux tradition and needed for > compatibility] > > [Rationale2: The physical location of the mail spool is not relevant to > an application and is administrator policy. It is thus left open.] > > > Can everyone live with that and bury the thread
Works for me, too. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. -- Henry David Thoreau