-Original Message-
From: Tino Engel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:58 PM
To: 'V.I.Victor'
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Changing /var/mail to a symlink
V.I.Victor schrieb:
Because of /var size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked
V.I.Victor schrieb:
Also, a suggestion was made off-list that moving /var/mail was better-done
via mounting a nullfs. I'm reading up on that now.
ndeed, moving the system maildir to another location using a
configuration file or similar is obviously the better solution.
V.I.Victor schrieb:
Because of /var size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked
/usr directory for email instead of /var/mail.
Based on today's research, I think the following will work.
With mail delivery off, I 'su' and:
mkdir /usr/var.mail
cd /var
cp -p mail/*
Because of /var size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked
/usr directory for email instead of /var/mail.
Based on today's research, I think the following will work.
With mail delivery off, I 'su' and:
mkdir /usr/var.mail
cd /var
cp -p mail/* /usr/var.mail/
mv mail