Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:57:47 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Marcelo <bsdq@stgo.cl>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, Stephen <sdk@yuck.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning disks (was: no subject) Message-ID: <20000203175747.C92577@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20000203120551.N55303@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:05:51PM %2B1030 References: <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002021218320.289-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000202134722.1214A-100000@stgo.cl> <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> <008701bf6dac$97b83ea0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> <4.2.2.20000202142914.06520bd0@mail.threespace.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000202134722.1214A-100000@stgo.cl> <20000202095655.B26831@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000202134722.1214A-100000@stgo.cl> <20000203120551.N55303@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:05:51PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 February 2000 at 13:47:42 +0000, Marcelo wrote: > > > > this limits the users ability to affect the machine, or to > > accidentally break it. > > You can break things by filling up /var. Mail will stop working, for > example, and some MUAs may end up trashing mailboxes if /var is full. You're using sendmail, right? There has to be some way to tell sendmail to use the home directory of the users for storing their mailbox. Or is the path to /var/mail hardwired into sendmail and an option in sendmail.cf is required to change it? -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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