[764] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
mail & afs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Niksch)
Tue May 12 04:50:50 1992
Date: Tue, 12 May 92 09:10:35 SET
From: "Michael Niksch" <nik@zurich.ibm.com>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
Ref: Note from Bob_Dew%alw.nih.gov AT CARNEGIE.BITNET
> My sincere apologies--I read the link the wrong way. But then how do
> get around having multiple links in your spooling area? (UNIX sendmail
> doesn't allow them, I thought).
Somehow, our mail system never complained about the chained symbolic
links in the spooler area. Maybe this depends on the fact that all the
mentioned entries, i.e. /usr/spool/mail/nik, /afs/.../spool/mail/nik,
/afs/.../spool/mail/.nik, and /afs/.../spool/mail/.nik/spoolfile are
owned by root.system. It is also important that anyuser has lookup
privilege in all these places. We run AIX 3.1 on all our machines, if
this makes a difference.
Michael
