From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 11:07:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA12302 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:07:56 -0800 Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA12293 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:07:52 -0800 Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA09623; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 14:07:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 14:07:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199511301907.OAA09623@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert "Re: Netscape 2.0b3" (Nov 30, 11:55am) from: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Nov 30, 11:55am, Terry Lambert wrote: } Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 } > > > >> 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-). } The nearest I can figure is that netscape does a uname call and matches it to the operating system...And the default is /usr/spool/mail. Because bsd/os has mail in the same location as FreeBSD. Personally I think netscape should make the mailbox location configurable in the "preferences" section. I guess that'd be too simple. } } Terry Lambert } terry@lambert.org } --- } Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present } or previous employers. }-- End of excerpt from Terry Lambert -- Charles Green UN*X System Administration 22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security & Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming