Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:55:37 -0500 From: Bobby Walker <bob@safeweb.net> To: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: popper problem with authentication Message-ID: <35E9D869.746BDBCD@safeweb.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980830184156.663A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>
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Lanny Baron wrote: > > Hello Bobby, > > Thanks for the help but you cant do : > beef# rm .* > rm: "." and ".." may not be removed > > this would actually remove all the users from /var/mail would it not?? > > Lanny It won't remove "." and ".." but it will remove all the .<user>.pop files which are just temporary files anyway. Popper creates more as needed. And since all the user mail files do not start with a "." they don't get removed. I've had to do this any number of times. -- Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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