Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:43:04 -0500 From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com> To: "Philip Hallstrom" <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving /var/mail Message-ID: <002001c71591$af38e090$d5b9bfcf@lisac> References: <001a01c7157d$cb9feee0$d5b9bfcf@lisac> <20061201141929.G77687@bravo.pjkh.com>
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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 important than risk screwing up people's mail boxes. > This is what I would do... > > ... stop your smtp program > ... stop your pop/imap program > tar zcvpf /tmp/varmail.tpgz /var/mail > mkdir -p /usr/var > mv /var/mail /usr/var/mail > ln -s /usr/var/mail /var/mail > ... restart your smtp/pop/imap programs... Thanks. I'll try this tomorrow. On a users home directory first... Lisa Casey
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