From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 30 15:56:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18346 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 15:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from unix.safeweb.net (safeweb.net [207.193.55.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18339 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 15:56:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@safeweb.net) Received: from safeweb.net (dial-088.safeweb.net [207.193.192.88]) by unix.safeweb.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA07639; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:52:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35E9D869.746BDBCD@safeweb.net> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:55:37 -0500 From: Bobby Walker X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lanny Baron CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: popper problem with authentication References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lanny Baron wrote: > > Hello Bobby, > > Thanks for the help but you cant do : > beef# rm .* > rm: "." and ".." may not be removed > > this would actually remove all the users from /var/mail would it not?? > > Lanny It won't remove "." and ".." but it will remove all the ..pop files which are just temporary files anyway. Popper creates more as needed. And since all the user mail files do not start with a "." they don't get removed. I've had to do this any number of times. -- Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message