rolling Firefox back to 2.x
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Thu Sep 4 03:37:25 UTC 2008
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
>
>> Oh, and if we want to nitpick,
>> /var/mail/iamparanoid but that's a file, not the whole directory.
>
> No it's not :-)
>
> $ ls /var/mail/* -ld
> drwxrwsr-x 45 derek mail 1736704 2008-09-03 09:48 /var/mail/derek
> -rw-rwx--- 1 marta mail 0 2004-03-30 13:13 /var/mail/marta
> drwxrws--- 6 oracle mail 64 2004-03-30 13:13 /var/mail/oracle
> drwxrws--- 18 pointer mail 217088 2008-09-01 18:19 /var/mail/pointer
>
> OK, 3 out of 4 ain't bad... The only reason that "marta" is an mbox is that
> she doesn't actually use this system.
>
> I'm actually a bit surprised that many systems still use mbox.
Huh? Isn't it standard practice to move maildir inboxes into the user's
home directory to avoid confounding the plethora of processes that
*expect* /var/mail/* to be mbox?
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