Changing "/var/mail" to a symlink

[Tino Engel]

V.I.Victor schrieb:
> 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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Sounds reasonable to me.
I'd just check afterwards if the permissions are like you want them to 
be, i.e. as they have been before...

And you might send one or another testmail to the an account on the 
system to see if everything works as before, before you delete the 
mail.mak directory...

Rg, Tino