From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 6:44:13 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 3187D37C256 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:44:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@diskfarm.firehouse.net) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA13124; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:48:17 GMT (envelope-from abc) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:48:17 +0000 From: Alan Clegg To: Sam Carleton Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail and setting up mailboxs Message-ID: <20000728094816.B12732@diskfarm.firehouse.net> References: <398186B6.F460AFB8@miltonstreet.com> <20000728091949.G11712@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <3981881A.90569B52@miltonstreet.com> <20000728092950.A12732@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <39818ACA.76E93FCB@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: <39818ACA.76E93FCB@miltonstreet.com>; from scarleton@miltonstreet.com on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:29:46AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of the ether, Sam Carleton spewed forth the following bitstream: > > 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? By your use of the word "folder" instead of the correct word "directory" and your mis-understanding of the ~, I had no idea of what you know more than what you type. Sorry, I'll turn up the brightness on my intuit-meter. > It was a mistype, what I ment was: > How do I copy a folder /usr/mail/mhoman to a file /home/mhoman/Mailbox? What are you using now that has created directories for mail? The standard, out-of-the-box configuration of FreeBSD (last time I checked [a minute ago]) was to create /var/mail with each user having a single mailbox (file). Did you replace sendmail with something prior to attempting to use qmail? AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message