Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:42:24 -0500 From: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@home.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re[2]: symlinking /var/mail to /usr/mail Message-ID: <7946.000401@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000401222657.B29675@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <20000401222657.B29675@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Quoting Crist J. Clark Saturday, April 01, 2000 CJC> On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:03:47PM -0500, Ben Williams wrote: >> Quoting Crist J. Clark Saturday, April 01, 2000 >> CJC> 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? >> >> CJC> Well, I think giving /usr/mail the same permissions and ownership as >> CJC> /var/mail would be a pretty safe way to go. In my case I would, >> >> CJC> # mkdir /usr/mail >> CJC> # chown root.mail /usr/mail >> CJC> # chmod 775 /usr/mail >> CJC> # kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` >> CJC> # tar cf - -C /var/mail . | tar xf - -C /usr/mail >> CJC> # mv /var/mail /var/mail.old # just to be safe >> CJC> # ln -s usr/mail /var/mail >> CJC> # /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m >> >> CJC> And I think that would do it. Remove /var/mail.old when you verify >> CJC> everything got copied and is working fine. >> >> >> Would it be better to change this somewhat: >> mkdir >> ch(own/mod) >> -- and now -stop- sendmail to avoid loosing data as tar runs -- >> --(will -HUP kill sendmail or cause it to re-read its config files?)-- CJC> On a HUP, it does die and also reads the config file. The present CJC> sendmail process dies and a new sendmail is spawned that reads the new CJC> config files. That's why I sent sendmail a TERM in the above CJC> example. CJC> However, thinking about it more, sendmail _loves_ to fork off copies CJC> of itself. After killing the parent sendmail as shown above, check to CJC> make sure there are no children still about. Wait for them to finish CJC> whatever they are doing before continuing. >> mv >> ln -s /usr/mail /var/mail # watch that first / ;-) CJC> Yep. I saw that typo after I sent the mail. That first slash is CJC> important. >> restart sendmail So the default signal for kill is -TERM? Looking at the manpage I see that it is. All this time I'd thought the default signal was HUP and I've been fully expanding all my signal arguments. --Ben Williams mailto:received@email dot com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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