I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to
/usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of
course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to
try a dry run using a user home directory first to make sure this would work
right. Good thing I did...
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?
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...
I created /usr/kellyw and attempted to copy the contents of /home/kellyw/
to it. First of all, I tried tar cvpf /usr/kellyw/kellyw.tar /home/kellyw/
When I unpack the tar file, I wind up with /usr/kellyw/home/kellyw/* Not
what I wanted. I wanted all of the files in /home/kellyw/ to wind up in
/usr/kellyw/
So I then tried to just copy the files using cp -p but I can't get the syntax
right on that:
# cd /home/kellyw
# ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 767 Aug 18 14:52 .cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 248 Aug 18 14:52 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 158 Aug 18 14:52 .login_conf
-rw------- 1 kellyw kellyw 373 Aug 18 14:52 .mail_aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 331 Aug 18 14:52 .mailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 797 Aug 18 14:52 .profile
-rw------- 1 kellyw kellyw 276 Aug 18 14:52 .rhosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 kellyw kellyw 975 Aug 18 14:52 .shrc
# cp -p /home/kellyw/* /usr/kellyw/*
cp: No match.
# cp -p /home/kellyw/ /usr/kellyw/
cp: /home/kellyw/ is a directory (not copied).
# cp -p /home/kellyw/*.* /usr/kellyw/*.*
cp: No match.
Can someone help me out with my syntax? The tar method would probably be
better (I guess) though I don't really care which method I use as long as it
works (and preserves permissions, etc.). There are only about 60 mailboxes on
this system.
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
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