Wichert writes: >> Can we agree our preference is /var/mail, is stated in the >> current FHS?
Manoj Srivastava <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While the new FHS is trying for conformance with other unices, we > should also consider rtadition [...] This is not quite the case. FHS 2.0, like previous versions, aims for somewhere between best practice and the common (Linux) practice. Mostly Linux, actually, because Linux generally has a much cleaner filesystem hierarchy layout. The mail is a "spool" vs. "not a spool" argument has been advocated on both sides, sometimes quite passionately, so I think it's best to ignore it. The ultimate question is: where should mail programs *look* for mail: /var/mail or /var/spool/mail. It doesn't matter if they end up traversing a symbolic link, but they should all look in the same place. (This should also be _PATH_MAILDIR.) Most mixed-Unix sites already end up linking from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail or the other way around. - Dan
