From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 24 23:27: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F303F14C43 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA00776; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:26:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:26:47 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902250726.XAA00776@apollo.backplane.com> To: Rahul Dhesi Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please don't check mail for root logins References: <199902250632.AA15387@bolero-x.rahul.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers. : :In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root. And :in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a :non-responding server, it hangs root logins. : :Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machine B :to be up. : :Rahul You should be able to fix this trivially in /etc/login.conf. Look at the standard: entry's setenv for MAIL and do something similar for root's, pointing MAIL somewhere else. I haven't tried this myself, but it should work. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message