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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 23:04:37 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Chris Byrnes <chris@shell.jeah.net>
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Subject: Re: symlinking /var/mail to /usr/mail
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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.

Try using the same permissions as those in your original /var/mail.
In my system it's set as:

	% ld -ld /var/mail
	drwxrwxr-x  2 root  mail  - 512 Apr  1 15:37 /var/mail

In the file /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist you can see how the permissions are
set when you compile and install "world" from the system sources:

	% grep mail BSD.var.dist
	    mail            gname=mail mode=0775
 
- Giorgos Keramidas


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