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[Jason Balicki]

>bash-2.05b# ls -la  /var/mail/
>-rw-------   1 ftp        ftp          0 Apr 19 01:27 ftp
>-rw-------   1 mail       mail         0 Apr 19 01:27 mail
>-rw-------   1 majordomo  daemon       0 Apr 19 01:27 majordomo

(please avoid HTML mail)

>bash-2.05b# mkdir /var/mail/mail/
>mkdir: /var/mail: Not a directory

>any clue?

Yes, /var/mail on your system is a 0 byte file, not a directory.

HTH,

--J(K)

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