Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> 
> 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.

Dwarf
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