Re: Mounting partition as /var/spool/mail

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Patrick Kirk said:
>  Is what I am trying to do possible and if so how have I
>  messed up permissions, assuming that is what I've messed up?

Oh, it's definitely possible...  From my fstab:

genma:/var/spool/mail   /var/spool/mail nfs   hard,intr,nosuid,noexec 0 0

Granted, that exact line won't work for you, since you're mounting a local
filesystem instead of an NFS share, but it can be done...

Check out man mount for info on how to control the permissions of the mounted
directory.  Specifically the --umask option.

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