Changing "/var/mail" to a symlink
V.I.Victor
idmc_vivr at intgdev.com
Fri Dec 14 11:57:14 PST 2007
Because of "/var" size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked
"/usr" directory for email instead of "/var/mail".
Based on today's research, I think the following will work.
With mail delivery off, I 'su' and:
mkdir /usr/var.mail
cd /var
cp -p mail/* /usr/var.mail/
mv mail mail.bak
ln -s /usr/var.mail mail
Since 'ls -l /var' shows:
drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 Dec 14 14:24 mail
I should then:
cd /usr
chmod 1777 var.mail
chown root:mail var.mail
No changes are made to the "/var/mail" symlink.
Then, if everything works, I just delete "/usr/mail.bak".
Does this seem OK?
Sorry to bother everyone with what's probably a trivial question, but
I *really* want to avoid screwing-up. The machine is remote; accessed
via ssh.
Thanks!
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