symbolic links

["Mike Egglestone" <megglestone@sd57.bc.ca>]

Hello,

I was running this command:

ls -l

in here:

/var/spool/

The file "mail" showed a link to somewhere, here's the output from mail

.....Apr 1 2001 mail -> ../mail

My question:
I'm guessing that the file "mail" is linked to here: /var/mail
but the above output doesn't tell me that.
If I wanted to find out where "mail" pointed to, how would I find out?
Its only telling me part of the link.
Same goes for the files in here:
/etc/rc2.d/
I know they all point to /etc/init.d/*
but the output from ls -l doesn't exactly tell me that.
For someone new, how could they find out?

Thanks for your help!!

Mike