On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Section 12.6: the para which currently reads: > > The mail spool is `/var/spool/mail' and the interface to send a mail > message is `/usr/sbin/sendmail' (as per the FHS). ... > > should be changed to: > > The mail spool is `/var/mail' and the interface to send a mail > message is /usr/sbin/sendmail (as per the FHS). On older systems, > the mail spool may be physically located in /var/spool/mail, but > all access to the mail spool should be via the /var/mail symlink. > > A new section 10.1.3 should be inserted into policy: > > 10.1.3 The system-wide mail directory > > The system-wide mail directory is /var/mail. This directory is > part of the base system and should not owned by any particular mail > agents. The use of the old location /var/spool/mail is deprecated, > even though the spool may still be physically located there. To > maintain partial upgrade compatibility for systems which have > /var/spool/mail as their physical mail spool, packages using > /var/mail > must depend on either libc6 (>= 2.1.3-13), or on > base-files (>= 2.2.0), or on later versions of either one of these > packages.
I second this.
