From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 16:26:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848E84823 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:51:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA26211; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:21:03 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:21:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Marcelo , Alfred Perlstein , Technical Information , "f.johan.beisser" , Stephen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning disks (was: no subject) Message-ID: <20000204082103.I18958@freebie.lemis.com> References: <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> <20000203175747.C92577@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000203175747.C92577@hades.hell.gr> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 3 February 2000 at 17:57:47 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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? You're missing the point. The mail spool is one part of the /var files that this technique is supposed to limit. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message