Sluggers,

I've been asked to look at an "unreliable" sendmail system.

One thing that I have seen is that the mailboxes in /var/spool/mail
are replaced by symbolic links to another directory on a different
partition. Ok so a bit different but nothing really weird, maybe they
need the space, but what is weird is the link points to for example

   /var/spool/mail/mymail --> /home/sites/site34/../../spool/mail/mymail

Does anyone have any idea why the ../../ in the symbolic link.
Is this some cleverness that I haven't seen before, as the link is
in effect /home/spool/mail/mymail. Would this have any effect, I can't
think of any.

TIA's

Pete

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