On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:37:27PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
: On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jerry A! wrote:
:
: > Actually, it is a symlink. Actually /usr/bin/mail, /usr/bin/newaliases,
: > /usr/bin/mailq, /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail are all
: > symbolic links to /usr/sbin/exim.
:
: Why is /usr/bin/mail a symlink to exim?
Sendmail compatibility mostly. I don't know what scripts will break, so
I just create the same links that sendmail does. Thus things like "echo
foo | mail someone@???" don't break.
I know that exim doesn't allow the user to read their mail.
If I need /usr/bin/mail to be an MUA, then I'll install mailx and relink
/usr/bin/mail to point to /usr/bin/mailx. However, I don't currently
have a single system I'm working on where people use mail(x) as their
MUA.
--Jerry
name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
email: jerry@??? || ...It's much more important
|| than that!
