Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:52:14 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@ilse.nl> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, marcolz@stack.nl Subject: Re: /bin/sh, $MAIL and login.conf Message-ID: <20020711005214.GD82744@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020708203130.GA6805@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020705132210.A20062@ilse.nl> <20020708203130.GA6805@gits.dyndns.org>
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message resent due to mta misconfigation. On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:31:30PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 01:22:10PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > I was wondering why /etc/login.conf makes the login shell for root check > > for mail in /var/mail/root. Most systems I use have /var/mail > > nfs-mounted from a central mailserver. > > an alternative would be to access /var/mail nfs-mounted as > /var/spool/mail and to make some mods in /etc/login.conf such as : > > default:\ > ... > :setenv=MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\ > ... > > root:\ > ... > :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\ > ... > > > When there are networking problems and thus all operations on /var/mail > > keep 'hanging', I would like to be able to login as root on console and > > fix it. With the default login.conf, this is not possible though, since > > one of the first things /bin/sh does, is check $MAIL for new mail. > > > > So I have three questions: > > > > 2) Is there (going to be) an 'unsetenv' possibility in > > login.conf, so that I can still use 'default' for all classes > > and just unsetenv MAIL for sysadmins and root ? > > yes ;) > > root:\ > :ignorenologin:\ > :setenv=BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\ > :tc=default: Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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