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On Thu, Jun 24, H.J. Lu wrote: > > > > 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 /var/mail is in the FHS 2.0, but was withdrawn from 2.1. This was FHS 2.1pre1, FHS 2.1pre2 has changed it again: The mails must be reachable through /var/mail, but it is now allowed to be a link to /var/spool/mail > > > > finger is busted in this case. The finger SuSE uses had /var/mail hardcoded in the sources and doesn't use paths.h. So changing it in the glibc sources doesn't solve it in every case. > > Ulrich, could you please update _PATH_MAILDIR in > > libc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h > > in glibc to reflect this change? I'm not sure that it is correct. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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