On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Peter Rundle wrote: > I've been asked to look at an "unreliable" sendmail system.
Sendmail is normally reliable - it's GUARANTEED to be infinitely configurable, you can rely on that! > 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. I normally find these in places where symlinks were created in batches by the use of some sort of automated link maker, which was used by someone who didn't understand how the tool worked and put the ../.. in there by accident. I don't know of any good reason to have it in there. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
