From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 06:54:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA11161 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 06:54:54 -0800 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA11092 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 06:54:23 -0800 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id PAA07944; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 15:41:22 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199511301441.PAA07944@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 To: lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br (Sergio Lenzi) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 15:41:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, bmk@dtr.com, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Sergio Lenzi" at Nov 30, 95 09:05:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1137 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > >> Anyone try to use the mail window of the new netscape? It searches > > >> for the mail spool directory in /usr/spool/mail. Any ideas on how we > > >> can get get around this? > > > > >Naturally, you could fix it if you had the source. > > > > Excuse me, > > > Why just do a simbolic link of the directories > ln -s /var/mail /usr/spool??? > Sergio de Almeida Lenzi. polluting directories with hard links to fix programs with hardcoded pathnames is A Bad Thing, IMHO, and always causes confusion when, after a few {days|weeks|months} one forgets about the existence of the link. Especially if there is a different solution using environment variables or program options Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================