Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:41:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com> To: dan@dpcsys.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qpopper Message-ID: <199810151641.JAA25774@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
Oh. Thanks a batch.
>What steps are you using when mounting drives in the scenario
>that doesn't work?
Not to paraphrase any politicians or anything; but, I'm really
glad you asked me that question. I was doing the change in
mounting by changing the /etc/fstab file and re-booting. That
was beacause, much to my surprise, I found that I couldn't
umount either the /var or /usr file systems (or both, I don't
remember). I would get a "device busy" error. I usually
associate that particular error with being logged into the
filesystem that I'm trying to umount; but, I wasn't. I was
logged into the / filesystem. What I wanted to do was to
interactively umount the existing /var and /usr filesystems
and then interactively mount the corresponding file systems
from the primary drive. I'd love to know why I couldn't
umount those file systems.
Thanks for the help.
... doug
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Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me.
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