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Re: mailpath bug

> 
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 
> > In RedHat 6.0, some problems, like finger, use /var/mail as the mail
> > spool dir. But the mail is in /var/spool/mail. I though /var/mail
> > was the current Linux standard. Is that true?
> 
> /var/mail is in the FHS 2.0, but was withdrawn from 2.1.
> 
> finger is busted in this case.
> 

Ulrich, could you please update _PATH_MAILDIR in

libc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h

in glibc to reflect this change?

Thanks.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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