> > 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
