Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:46:56 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Chris Byrnes <chris@shell.jeah.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlinking /var/mail to /usr/mail Message-ID: <20000401124656.B28346@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <200004011308.HAA23895@shell.jeah.net>; from chris@shell.jeah.net on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 07:08:23AM -0600 References: <200004011308.HAA23895@shell.jeah.net>
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On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 07:08:23AM -0600, Chris Byrnes wrote: > I am running out of space on /var, so I'd like to remove /var/mail, > create /usr/mail, and create a symlink so /var/mail forwards to > /usr/mail. > > I know how to do that and stuff, but I'm not sure what permissions /usr/mail > should have and who should own it. > > Advice? Well, I think giving /usr/mail the same permissions and ownership as /var/mail would be a pretty safe way to go. In my case I would, # mkdir /usr/mail # chown root.mail /usr/mail # chmod 775 /usr/mail # kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` # tar cf - -C /var/mail . | tar xf - -C /usr/mail # mv /var/mail /var/mail.old # just to be safe # ln -s usr/mail /var/mail # /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m And I think that would do it. Remove /var/mail.old when you verify everything got copied and is working fine. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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