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RE: default mail spool location
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Thu Nov 26 02:29:15 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 02:29:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Keith Bennett wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Zoki wrote:
>
> > ->okay, so the problem still isn't solved. anyone got any ideas?
> >
> >
> > *** Of course it is! You change /var/spool/mail to anything you want and
> > off you go. Isn't that what you want?
>
> no, the mail outlined how to change /var/spool/mqueue _not_ how to
> change /var/spool/mail which is what i want to do.
>
There are only two environment settings I know about for
/var/spool/mail. They could be changed in /etc/profile and
/etc/passwd.
If you have existing users on the machine and you change this in
/etc/profile you have to change it everywhere in /etc/passwd.
Cheers!
--
Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
http://www.moongroup.com/
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/
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constant. And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..."
-- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.
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