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Re: var/spool/mail on new drive having problems (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Hatfield)
Tue Oct 20 12:36:48 1998
From: "Jack Hatfield" <monster@rocsoft.net>
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:35:46 -0400
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I did approxiamately what was stated. Mount the hard drive temp and copy,
but I did not tar. So what do the permissions need to be set to for sendmail
to recognize these users.
I looked back at the other directory and they were
-rw-rw----- user mail 2349209 user
so I made all the permissions that and that still does not work. What should
I do to get those permission right?? They keep changing to
-rw-------- user user 203423 user
Wierd or am I just wrong in my thinking??
RocNet Monster
RocSoft, Inc.
915 Lyttleton St.
Camden SC 29020
803 713-3433
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Rager <redhat-list@actech.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: var/spool/mail on new drive having problems (fwd)
>
>
>On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, rex wrote:
>
>> What do you mean "a link to the OLD /var/spool/mail"?
>> You should have maintain this by mounting a larger partition under this
>> directory.
>
> Well a link will work if done right. I do it all the time.
>
>> How did you fix your spatial problem?
>
>> I would have added the drive, mounted it under some temp directory.
>> Then, after tarring the /var/spool/mail(retating all ownership and
>> permissions)
>> to this new drive and untarring it there, remount this drive under
>> /var/spool/mail.
> Under Linux cp -a does the same.
>> Of course you would want your mail services to be disabled during this
time,
>> perhaps
>> doing all this in single user mode.
> There are only two deamon used. To turn them off, is a good idea.
>To do this type:
>
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop
>
>> You shouldn't have any problems with links after that. But just to check
for
>> the existence of such links perform a
>> find / -lname *var/spool/mail*
>> This will discover any DIRECT links to things under /var/spool/mail
>> (i.e. It won't discover a link to a link that is linked to
/var/spool/mail)
>> Rex
>
> The only thing that I left out is that you do need to restart the
>deamons after this and move the old dir out of the way before you make the
>link.
>
> I am sorry if I was not clear.
>
>
>Richard Rager
>
>
>
>
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