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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:29:50 +0000
From:      Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
To:        Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: qmail and setting up mailboxs
Message-ID:  <20000728092950.A12732@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <3981881A.90569B52@miltonstreet.com>; from scarleton@miltonstreet.com on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:18:18AM -0400
References:  <398186B6.F460AFB8@miltonstreet.com> <20000728091949.G11712@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <3981881A.90569B52@miltonstreet.com>

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Out of the ether, Sam Carleton spewed forth the following bitstream:

> > with shell expansion, ~user/Mailbox is a file in user's home directory
> > called Mailbox.

> That makes sense, but then how do I copy a folder (/usr/mail/mhoman) to a file
> /home/mhoman?  Any thoughts?

Uh... your users should have home _directories_, not files.  Are you sure
that /home/mhoman is not a directory?  

This is a basic concept of multi-user systems, and while I can't come up
with a reference right off the bat, I'd recommend that you do some reading.

AlanC


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