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From: shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
Subject: Re: system-wide mailbox on aix
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1991 23:27:35 GMT

In article <28DR_OAA@linac.fnal.gov> looi@sutro.SFSU.EDU (W. W. Looi) writes:
[about symlinks between mail spool directories]
>>That means that /usr/spool/mail/$USER and /usr/mail/$USER are the SAME file.

>Any justification for doing this? The BSD I'm familiar with has only
>one, that's /usr/spool/mail/$USER

SysV mailers user /usr/mail.  Doing it this way prevented the AIX guys
from having to change some sendmail pathnames.
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                    Software longa, hardware brevis
Melinda Shore - Cornell Information Technologies - shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu