From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 15:19:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns-1.macromedia.com (ns-1.macromedia.com [207.88.220.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973D114F37 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:19:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rrucker@macromedia.com) Received: from ns-2.macromedia.com (ns-2.macromedia.com [207.88.156.10]) by ns-1.macromedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA15522 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:19:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from macromedia.com (rrucker-pc.macromedia.com [192.168.40.118]) by ns-2.macromedia.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07900 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:19:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <382CA1FB.70BCBF7@macromedia.com> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:25:47 -0800 From: Rudy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail symlink References: <01BF2D38.546B4D40@TECH-02> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Arturo Chen T." wrote: > I had my users mail files on > /var/mail > and my partition was getting full. I decided to move it to > /usr/mail > which has lots of space. I created a symlink from /var/mail pointing to /usr/mail, now when i try to retrive my mail, I get a message saying > > cant open temporary file, do you own it? > > Can someone help me with this? Art: I did something similar, and it works fine. please do the following: ls -l /var ls -ld /usr/mail ls -ld /usr/mail/artchen (or whatever the mail name is) and email the results to me. Also, what program are you using to cause the 'cant open temporary file, do you own it'? (POP3, pine, mail, elm???) Rudy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message