Re: [Exim] Problems with writing to spool

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:36:57PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:

> > Well, given that (on Debian at least) one is (by default) /var/spool/exim/
> > and the other is /var/spool/mail/, I think of the two as "Exim spool" and
> > "mail spool".
>
> Aarrgghh!! I didn't realise Debian (ab)used the word "spool" like that,
> though I have heard people talk of "the mail spool".

I don't think they abuse the word, just the directory name, if you see what
I mean.

/var/spool/mail is traditional in quite a few versions of unix, including
all early linux systems, and so debian started off using it. The FHS (linux
file hierarchy standard) specifies /var/mail, but debian haven't changed to
that because of the difficulty of migrating existing systems.