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- From: greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Mail configuration
- Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook.
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:21:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <GREENDOG.92Jul26222136@max.physics.sunysb.edu>
- In-Reply-To: loss@enews.nrl.navy.mil's message of 24 Jul 92 14: 49:06 GMT
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- In article <3124@ra.nrl.navy.mil> loss@enews.nrl.navy.mil (Brian Loss) writes:
- > I would like to configure the mail system on our
- > network so that messages are available to a user no
- > matter which machine he/she logs in to. Every
- > machine on our system has one common disk mounted,
- > and I would think we could just change the system
- > mailboxes to be on that disk instead of on each
- > machine's local disk. How would I go about doing
- > something like this?
-
- I just did this a week ago on our setup of 5 indigos and a 4D/440!
- At first I mounted the master mail directory (on max, the 440) on
- each indigo (via "mount max:/usr/mail /usr/mail") but then realized
- that since the /usr disk on max was mounted on each indigo as /usr.max
- I could just make a link (ln -s /usr.max/mail /usr/mail). Both methods
- worked fine as long as the master computer's /etc/exports gives the
- other machines root permission (i.e "/usr -access=<list machines here>,
- root=<list machines again>).
-
- Michael
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