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/var/mail vs. /var/spool/mail



On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 03:02:11AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > I hate cluttered up root directories. The first thing I do is a
> > rmdir /floppy /initrd; rm /vmlinux and all that stuff since 95%
> > of the machines I use don't NEED it.
> 
> Well personally I really disklike to have mountpoints under /mnt..
> so, do we have the next battle after /var/spool/mail versus /var/mail ?

It's unreasonable to change a working system from /var/spool/mail to
/var/mail.  I suggest if /var/mail does not exist, create a symlink for
it pointing at /var/spool/mail.  OTOH, I would suggest NEW installations
use /var/mail with /var/spool/mail being a symlink.

Least surprise on upgrade, best results on new installation.

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