From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 6:25:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diskfarm.firehouse.net (rdu25-12-043.nc.rr.com [24.25.12.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3409837C2EF for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:25:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@diskfarm.firehouse.net) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA12808; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:29:50 GMT (envelope-from abc) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:29:50 +0000 From: Alan Clegg To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: qmail and setting up mailboxs Message-ID: <20000728092950.A12732@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Clegg , Sam Carleton , FreeBSD Questions References: <398186B6.F460AFB8@miltonstreet.com> <20000728091949.G11712@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <3981881A.90569B52@miltonstreet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3981881A.90569B52@miltonstreet.com>; from scarleton@miltonstreet.com on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:18:18AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message