[PLUG] /var/mail

Eric Wilhelm ewilhelm at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 17 14:28:22 UTC 2005


# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Wil Cooley
# on Thursday 17 February 2005 01:58 am:

>/var/spool/mail is the FHS-canonical location for such things;
> /var/mail should be a symlink to that, rather than the other way
> around.  Of course, if you're using Debian it's probably based on 10
> year-old conventions.

?

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARMAILUSERMAILBOXFILES

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.1.3

$readlink /var/spool/mail
../mail

Looks like 1-year-old conventions to me.

--Eric
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