Adam Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm running testing, and I have both - /var/mail/$USER and >> /var/spool/mail/$USER. Why is this? > > One is a symbolic link: > > ls -l /var/spool/mail > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 16 03:30 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail
Ah, stupid me; I only checked the file itself, and it wasn't symlink, that's where I went wrong. Yes, indeed - /var/spool/mail points to /var/mail. This was good to know, > If you change directory to /var/spool/mail you will be transparently > mapped into ../mail (/var/mail). Yup. > Symbolic links are incredibly useful. They are, indeed. Whenever I compile a software from its sources, I install it in /usr/local/stow/foo, then run `stow foo' and I've symlinks nicely in /usr/local/bin pointing to the "real directory". I think this is extremely convenient - programs are easy to remove and the whole thing is very organised. And, I'm the kind of person, who likes to organise everything. :-) Thanks for the answers. -- Jussi Ekholm, "Everything is so fine it could be little, ill flower don't let your mind take you in misery [EMAIL PROTECTED] all the feelings you're not so much pleased http://goa-head.org/ekhowl they're just to take you to sweet harmony"
