From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 11:03:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA11960 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:03:55 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA11918 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:03:31 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA01153; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:55:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511301855.LAA01153@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:55:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br, bde@zeta.org.au, bmk@dtr.com, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199511301441.PAA07944@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Nov 30, 95 03:41:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 929 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > >> 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 more like ln -s /var/mail /usr/compat/bsdi/usr/spool 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.