On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:16:33PM +0100, Wilson Tuma wrote: > Hi list > > On a new mail server I place the /var/log/spool/mail on a different > partition /dev/hda7 > > The command that mounts this valume is > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /var/log/spool/mail in the file > /etc/rc2.d/S99rmnologin > > The problem I have is send mail can seem to be able to write to > /var/log/spool/mail/ > > Could this have any thing do with the lost&found directory on the root of > the new partion? Or is there something else I am leaving out.
Make sure you chown root.mail /var/spool/mail chmod 2775 /var/spool/mail AFTER the partition is mounted. It is not sufficent to chmod/chown the mount directory when the partition is unmounted. also, mounting /var/spool/mail in /etc/rc2.d/S99rmnologin is probably not a good idea. All filesystems should be mounted before the services are activated. Imagine the MTA stores some mail in the directory before the partition is mounted - the messages become invisible! You should probably make a proper entry in /etc/fstab to let this mount automatically in appropiate stage of system startup. regards Marcin -- --------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------
