Re: Changing /var/mail to a symlink
-Original Message- From: Tino Engel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:58 PM To: 'V.I.Victor' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing /var/mail to a symlink V.I.Victor schrieb: Because of /var size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked /usr directory for email instead of /var/mail. Based on today's research, I think the following will work. With mail delivery off, I 'su' and: mkdir /usr/var.mail cd /var cp -p mail/* /usr/var.mail/ mv mail mail.bak ln -s /usr/var.mail mail Since 'ls -l /var' shows: drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 Dec 14 14:24 mail I should then: cd /usr chmod 1777 var.mail chown root:mail var.mail No changes are made to the /var/mail symlink. Then, if everything works, I just delete /usr/mail.bak. Does this seem OK? Sorry to bother everyone with what's probably a trivial question, but I *really* want to avoid screwing-up. The machine is remote; accessed via ssh. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds reasonable to me. I'd just check afterwards if the permissions are like you want them to be, i.e. as they have been before... And you might send one or another testmail to the an account on the system to see if everything works as before, before you delete the mail.mak directory... Rg, Tino Thanks for the reply! I was pretty sure that the symlinking was right, but was not sure how the permissions carried thru -- as you also mentioned. I probably should have asked differently... Also, a suggestion was made off-list that moving /var/mail was better-done via mounting a nullfs. I'm reading up on that now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing /var/mail to a symlink
V.I.Victor schrieb: Also, a suggestion was made off-list that moving /var/mail was better-done via mounting a nullfs. I'm reading up on that now. ndeed, moving the system maildir to another location using a configuration file or similar is obviously the better solution. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing /var/mail to a symlink
V.I.Victor schrieb: Because of /var size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked /usr directory for email instead of /var/mail. Based on today's research, I think the following will work. With mail delivery off, I 'su' and: mkdir /usr/var.mail cd /var cp -p mail/* /usr/var.mail/ mv mail mail.bak ln -s /usr/var.mail mail Since 'ls -l /var' shows: drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 Dec 14 14:24 mail I should then: cd /usr chmod 1777 var.mail chown root:mail var.mail No changes are made to the /var/mail symlink. Then, if everything works, I just delete /usr/mail.bak. Does this seem OK? Sorry to bother everyone with what's probably a trivial question, but I *really* want to avoid screwing-up. The machine is remote; accessed via ssh. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds reasonable to me. I'd just check afterwards if the permissions are like you want them to be, i.e. as they have been before... And you might send one or another testmail to the an account on the system to see if everything works as before, before you delete the mail.mak directory... Rg, Tino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing /var/mail to a symlink
Because of /var size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked /usr directory for email instead of /var/mail. Based on today's research, I think the following will work. With mail delivery off, I 'su' and: mkdir /usr/var.mail cd /var cp -p mail/* /usr/var.mail/ mv mail mail.bak ln -s /usr/var.mail mail Since 'ls -l /var' shows: drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 Dec 14 14:24 mail I should then: cd /usr chmod 1777 var.mail chown root:mail var.mail No changes are made to the /var/mail symlink. Then, if everything works, I just delete /usr/mail.bak. Does this seem OK? Sorry to bother everyone with what's probably a trivial question, but I *really* want to avoid screwing-up. The machine is remote; accessed via ssh. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
