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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:08:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: qpopper
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981015090517.17091A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810150332.UAA24027@srv01.bigwheel.net>

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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Doug Jolley wrote:
> As a precaution, I have two hard drives.  Each drive contains
> a bootable root file system, a /var filesystem, and a /usr
> filesystem.  At night a cron job updates files on the secondary
> drive from the primary drive.  The system is a mail server
> running qpopper.  I have discovered that when I mount the root
> filesystem from the secondary drive and the /var and /usr
> filesystems from the primary drive Eudora (when running on a
> workstation) complains that it can't open the temp file.
> The problem seems to be related to the /var filesystem
> because it goes away when I mount the /var filesystem from
> the secondary drive instead of the primary.  Does anyone
> know what temp file Eudora could be talking about.  Thanks

/var/mail/.username

What steps are you using when mounting drives in the scenario
that doesn't work?

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation        dan@dpcsys.com
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