Eskimo North

There are two paths associated with your home directory, a symlink'd path in the form: /u/l/login and another physical path in the form of something like /bigdisk/u/l/login. Any reference to your home directory in programs or in things like a crontab entry, should use the symlink'd form, or alternately ~login.

The reason for this is that the physical form may change without notice if we move users home directories to a different server or disk partition but the symlink'd form will remain the same.

The symlink'd form is also what we put in the password file and so ~login will always resolve to that form.