Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:22:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:20:42PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to > > /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of >

Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to > /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of > course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to > try a dry run using a user home directory f

Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi Phillip, I'm a little confused... if you want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail why are you messing around with /home at all? As I said - that was a dry run to see if this would work the way I thought it would (it didn't). I'ld rather practice with a users home directory that isn't impo

Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:22:01PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > >I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to > >/usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of > >course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to >

Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:20:42PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to > /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of > course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to >

Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work

Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread James Skinner
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 24, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 24, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permission

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 24, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 24, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probabl

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread James Skinner
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well)

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 24, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a fi

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using sc

moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using scp, but it doesn't preserve uid/gid I fou