From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 4 9: 7:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axel.truedestiny.net (a185066.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.185.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29ABD37B419 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 09:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5133649AB2; Sat, 4 May 2002 18:07:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 18:07:42 +0200 From: Axel Scheepers To: johann@broadpark.no Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount server:/var/mail /var/mail Message-ID: <20020504180742.B13115@mars.thuis> Reply-To: Axel Scheepers References: <1020511875.3cd3c683ae894@mail.broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1020511875.3cd3c683ae894@mail.broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Sat, May 04, 2002 at 01:31:15PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 01:31:15PM +0200, johann@broadpark.no wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running Postfix on my gateway, and I've found out the best way to access > my workstation's e-mail was through NFS. I've mounted /var/mail. > > What I'm curious about is what happens when my workstation recieves mail from > localhost, since /var/mail is exported by the gateway, I'm sensing some sort > of conflict. Hi, Postfix will want to write in /var/mail indeed, but won't garbage the files if it can write to them; you'll just get a mixed inbox if you use it this way. How about setting up IMAP or POP3 on the server. and let your favorite mailclient connect to it? I usually like to log in with ssh, and start mutt localy on my mail server, but pop3 is running for my sister who uses Outlook for mail. > > Also if I want my workstation to do my gateway's makeworld, wouldn't I have to > turn everything around and export from my workstation? I do that too for my old 486/16MB gateway, I just started 'make buildworld' on my workstation and exported /usr/obj to the gateway. On the gateway I mounted it on /usr/obj and started 'make installworld' (In fact, the src dir was also a nfs share) which was fast, since it didn't need to compile everything nomore, but just had to link the objects together. > > -- Johann > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net a.scheepers@iae.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message