From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Cc: Subject: Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box In-Reply-To: <8b2f9ac4add9fd0ada953b3e225799c2@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:52:52 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3f270f88-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, YAMANASHI Takeshi wrote: > "On Sun Sep 21 21:33:30 JST 2003, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:" > > I think it is convenient if /mail/box/$user is automatic created > > at the time when /usr/$user is created. > > I'm afraid to contradict you, but /mail and /usr is not > necessarily on the same file system. And more, this should > be relevant to the cron directory too. Perhaps, but that is clearly the long way around the bend. The reasonable appreoach is exactly what Yamanashi Takeshi wrote, If you're going to create users then mount all the relevant namespaces and do it at one time - and then test it. That way you don't get trouble calls later on down the road. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com