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@@ -8,5 +8,11 @@ them manually as those files are used to configure authentication
details on the system.
</para>
+<para>
+<userinput>sed "s|/var/spool/mail|/var/mail|" login.defs.linux &gt;
+/etc/login.defs</userinput>: /var/spool/mail is the old location of the
+user mailboxes. The location that is used nowadays is /var/mail.
+</para>
+
</sect2>