Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:21:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr 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: <20000204082103.I18958@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000203175747.C92577@hades.hell.gr> References: <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> <20000203175747.C92577@hades.hell.gr>
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On Thursday, 3 February 2000 at 17:57:47 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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? You're missing the point. The mail spool is one part of the /var files that this technique is supposed to limit. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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