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- From: peter@ski.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.838.4019)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: automounted /var/spool/mail
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.235120.18797@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 23:51:20 GMT
- References: <tkevans.713073293@eplrx7.es.dupont.com> <1992Aug6.225247.17865@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <1992Aug13.140721.28145@informatik.uni-ulm.de>
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- In article <1992Aug13.140721.28145@informatik.uni-ulm.de> borchert@titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert) writes:
- >Mounting /var/spool/mail without root access and without OR option
- >works on Suns (at least on our net). The only problem is mail delivery
- >for the root itself but this can be solved by use of aliases.
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- Acutally, AIX 3.2 should work the same. I just consider the root
- limitation to be a serious one, so I figure that exporting the
- directory with root access is the better solution. But aliasing
- root to the nfs server machine should work just fine.
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- peter jeffe peter@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com
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