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

[Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>]

> > symlink only. Right now everyone uses /var/spool/mail whats the technical
> > reason for using /var/mail that is good enough to justify the change ?
> 
> Compatibility with other *NIXs?  So, for example, I set up my $500 Linux

How about compatibility with other Linuxes 8)

> box to be a mail spool for a heterogeneous network of Sun, AIX, HP-UX,
> yada, yada - their stuff wants /var/mail (can't actually say about AIX,
> though).

So you mount the NFS shared directory of /var/mail locally as
/var/spool/mail. 

Alan