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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