Re: Help needed getting mail working.
Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz> wrote:
>> I'm running testing, and I have both - /var/mail/$USER and
>> /var/spool/mail/$USER. Why is this?
>
> One is a symbolic link:
>
> ls -l /var/spool/mail
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 16 03:30 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail
Ah, stupid me; I only checked the file itself, and it wasn't symlink,
that's where I went wrong. Yes, indeed - /var/spool/mail points to
/var/mail. This was good to know,
> If you change directory to /var/spool/mail you will be transparently
> mapped into ../mail (/var/mail).
Yup.
> Symbolic links are incredibly useful.
They are, indeed. Whenever I compile a software from its sources,
I install it in /usr/local/stow/foo, then run `stow foo' and I've
symlinks nicely in /usr/local/bin pointing to the "real directory".
I think this is extremely convenient - programs are easy to remove
and the whole thing is very organised. And, I'm the kind of person,
who likes to organise everything. :-)
Thanks for the answers.
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