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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > 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 Damn, another one that barely stands a chance... I am always puzzled by this standardization things that in essence are saying "well, everybody is using /var/spool/mail; let's make /var/mail the standard then!" > The finger SuSE uses had /var/mail hardcoded in the sources Probably the same thing happend to Red Hat too. Cristian -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cristian Gafton -- gafton@redhat.com -- Red Hat, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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