by dee » Wed, 10 May 2006 00:34:09
by stuart_abrams_humphr.. » Wed, 10 May 2006 00:44:38
by Lion- » Wed, 10 May 2006 20:01:02
In the usual case "spool" is used to store files which can change very often.Quote:> New to sys admin.
> Can anyone explain the significance of spool directory.
The filesystem(5) manualpage also explains as much although I think its a bit
outdated since that still mentiones /var/spool/pkg being used for all this.
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1. /var/spool/mail vs. /usr/spool/mail
I know this might appear to be a real newbee question, but it
is coming from one. ;)
Why do I have a /var/spool/mail and a /usr/spool/mail?
The /var/spool/mail doesn't seem to do anything, does it:
I ran a test.
I chown'd a partickular user's /var/spool/mail file to
root and chown'd the same user's /usr/spool/mail file
to root.
The result was that the user couldn't check mail--that makes sense!.
I then chown'd that user's /usr/spool/mail to make that user the
owner and that user could then check mail.
If /var/spool/mail was still owned by root ad the user was able to
check mail, what is the function of /var/spool/mail?
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5. mail folder is in /var/mail or /var/spool/mail
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