system-wide mailbox on aix

[Melinda Shore]

In article <28DR_OAA at linac.fnal.gov> looi at 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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Melinda Shore - Cornell Information Technologies - shore at theory.tn.cornell.edu