topic /var/mail not big enough - want to symbolic link elsewhere in Operating System - HP-UX

/var/mail not big enough - want to symbolic link elsewhere

Simon R Wootton — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:53:35 GMT

Our /var/mail filesystem is not big enough to cope with the emails coming in/going out. I can't extend the size of this filesystem because there is no available disk.

Can I link the /var/mail dir to another filesystem (eg. /user19/mail) without causing any problems, concious that mail needs to be config'd right!

I would plan to type the following in the /var directory :

ln -s /user19/mail mail

(Note: we have /var/mail as a seperate filesystem).

Please advise - points available!
Cheers
Simon

Re: /var/mail not big enough - want to symbolic link elsewhere

MarkSyder — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:56:34 GMT

I can't see any reason why this wouldn't work. What's different about the way mail has to be configured?

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: /var/mail not big enough - want to symbolic link elsewhere

Geoff Wild — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:58:39 GMT

Yes you can do this - if sendmail is running as a daemon - shut it down first....

Make sure you set the permissions on the "new" location to be the same as the curent /var/mail

Rgds...Geoff

Re: /var/mail not big enough - want to symbolic link elsewhere

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:59:09 GMT

Hi Simon,

Check Bill Hassel's answer in this thread.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=113533

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: /var/mail not big enough - want to symbolic link elsewhere

Simon R Wootton — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:01:51 GMT

Looks like it's a green light - thanks guys. Points for speed of response as well as the answer!

Simon

Re: /var/mail not big enough - want to symbolic link elsewhere

Simon R Wootton — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:02:41 GMT

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