On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, when I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade two days ago /var/mail > was created, but I still have /var/spool/mail also and that's where my > system says I have mail when it comes in. what's the deal here?
The deal is that new systems get /var/mail, and old systems get a /var/mail symlink to /var/spool/mail. All Debian packages are now to try to reference the spool as /var/mail, but the old configuration (/var/spool/mail) is fully supported. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
