Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:26:47 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please don't check mail for root logins Message-ID: <199902250726.XAA00776@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199902250632.AA15387@bolero-x.rahul.net>
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: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
<dillon@backplane.com>
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