From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 8:51:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2755404A for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat6.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.198]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA12602; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:50:54 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA13575; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:57:48 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:57:47 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Greg Lehey Cc: Marcelo , Alfred Perlstein , Technical Information , "f.johan.beisser" , Stephen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning disks (was: no subject) Message-ID: <20000203175747.C92577@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com> <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> <008701bf6dac$97b83ea0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com> <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000203120551.N55303@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000203120551.N55303@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:05:51PM +1030 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:05:51PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 February 2000 at 13:47:42 +0000, Marcelo wrote: > > > > this limits the users ability to affect the machine, or to > > accidentally break it. > > You can break things by filling up /var. Mail will stop working, for > example, and some MUAs may end up trashing mailboxes if /var is full. You're using sendmail, right? There has to be some way to tell sendmail to use the home directory of the users for storing their mailbox. Or is the path to /var/mail hardwired into sendmail and an option in sendmail.cf is required to change it? -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message