sendmail: mail.local delivers to /var/mail/ not /var/spool/mail

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Steve Wills wrote:

> > I grep'ed the whole directory and missed it.
>
> I know the feeling, I used to do that all the time, then I discovered
> egrep -iRl. :)

haven't used the 'l'. will give it a try sometime.

Still can't see how I missed it :-(


> > Is anything going to bight me by moving this? My last version of sendmail
> > delivered to /var/spool/mail and the current one is working with a link
> > from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail.
>
> I doubt it, you should be able to put your mail spool wherever you want.

I'm about to find out.

> On the other hand, I'm tend not to move things from standard/default
> places unless I have to, since it makes it easier for myself and others to
> find things.

Yes, but I can't remember having mail in /var/mail in Linux.

Thanks

Joe

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