From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 23:32:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA25957 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from Radford.i-Plus.net (root@Radford.i-Plus.net [206.99.237.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA25950 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from abyss (pitlord@abyss.i-Plus.net [206.99.237.42]) by Radford.i-Plus.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA00893 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 02:31:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199702200731.CAA00893@Radford.i-Plus.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Troy Settle" Organization: iPlus Internet Services To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 02:44:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: oops... nevermind what I said about qpopper Reply-to: rewt@i-Plus.net Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A few days ago, I responded to a post asking how to get qpopper to run on FreeBSD. One of the things I mentioned, was to change the directories in popper.h. DO NOT DO THIS, YOU MAY LOOSE MAIL. Earlier tonight, I lost an untold amount of mail when my server rebooted. Of course, in /etc/rc. /tmp is cleaned up. Nothing survives... not even temporary mail files. Damn blanktime thingie... grrr.... Oh well... I didn't loose anything important... just the 2-300 messages I get each day from various lists. :) ttyl, Troy (Oh, it now seems that the easiest way to get qpopper to work, is to 'chmod 1777 /var/mail' Are there any religious reasons why I don't want to do this?) -- Troy Settle Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net ( Stuff I said does not reflect the company I work ) ( for unless I'm speaking on behalf of said company )