Re: /var/mail vs. /var/spool/mail

To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: /var/mail vs. /var/spool/mail
From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 04:33:29 -0700
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At 16:16 +0300 1999-04-14, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:

I suggest we follow this, leave mailspool in /var/spool/mail and install
a symlink from /var/mail.

Whatever is responsible for making the link had better cope with/var/mail being a directory and /var/spool/mail being a symlink. Allmy systems have such a setup.

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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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