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Subject:	Re: Error when attempting to start inetd
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:53:07 -0500
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Michael Grand wrote:

> Ren=E9 Berber wrote:
>=20
>> Oops! I forgot something I did to make imap work, exim and uw-imap have
>> different definitions of the mail spool so I did a hard link between
>> /var/mail
>> and /var/mail/spool.  That probably is what the error "The network
>> path was not
>> found" meant, imapd could not find /var/mail.
>=20
> I don't know exactly what you mean by a "hard link", but /var/mail
> exists already.  I created /var/mail/spool but that did not fix the
> problem.

They have to be the same directory, thus the hardlink (man ln):

ln /var/mail/spool /var/mail

of course this has to be done after you delete the directory you created.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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