From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 6:29:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ipass.one.net (news2.one.net [206.112.192.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD00E37C246 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scarleton@miltonstreet.com) Received: from miltonstreet.com (ws11.syner.com [63.84.188.11] (may be forged)) by ipass.one.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA24675 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:29:40 -0400 Message-ID: <39818ACA.76E93FCB@miltonstreet.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:29:46 -0400 From: Sam Carleton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: qmail and setting up mailboxs References: <398186B6.F460AFB8@miltonstreet.com> <20000728091949.G11712@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <3981881A.90569B52@miltonstreet.com> <20000728092950.A12732@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alan Clegg wrote: > 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. Come on Alan, Do you really think I don't know that /home/mhoman is a folder? It was a mistype, what I ment was: How do I copy a folder /usr/mail/mhoman to a file /home/mhoman/Mailbox? -- Sam Carleton Please stop by http://www.maineville.net and help my local police force! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message