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From: wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Subject: Re: system-wide mailbox on aix
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.165851.11350@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1991 16:58:51 GMT
References: <_S7ERCI_=@linac.fnal.gov>
Organization: INSA Departement Informatique, Lyon, France

In article <_S7ERCI_=@linac.fnal.gov> looi@sutro.SFSU.EDU (W. W. Looi) writes:
>Does anyone know why there are two system-wide mailboxes on AIX?
>They locate in /usr/spool/mail/$USER and /usr/mail/$USER

On some AIX (maybe all?) you can check that /usr/mail is linked to
/usr/spool/mail as indicated here:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     system   15 19 Mar 11:04 /usr/mail -> /usr/spool/mail

That means that /usr/spool/mail/$USER and /usr/mail/$USER are the SAME file.

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