Mail spool dir location (was Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX)

[Gary Heston]

In article <1990Dec02.213409.17190 at ka3ovk.irs.GOV> brown at ka3ovk.irs.GOV (Ken Brown) writes:
>I've got another one.  As part of SysV, AT&T in their infinite wisdom
>decided to move the mail spool directory from /usr/spool/mail to
>/usr/lib/mail.  Seemed like a strange move to me, with no obvious benefits
>but, hey, it was their baby.  They can do as they wish.

Interesting. On Interactive stuff (1.0.6, 2.0.2, and 2.2) it's /usr/mail;
not in /usr/spool OR /usr/lib.

Geezz, standards are wonderful. :-)

> [ ... ] thereby creating Pseudnix (I love that word).

There seems to be a lot of it out here....

CFD: comp.pseudunix.*

:-)

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