Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box

Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box

[YAMANASHI Takeshi]

"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.
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Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box

[Jim Choate]

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.

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[9fans] Re: permission bit of /mail/box (type correction)

[Jim Choate]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Jim Choate wrote:

> The reasonable appreoach is exactly what Yamanashi Takeshi wrote, If
                                     ^
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Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box

[Dan Cross]

> 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.

Good point, but I'd respectfully point out that in that case, it wouldn't
really matter.  In maybe the most common case, /mail and /usr are on the
same filesystem, so creating them at the same time wouldn't hurt anything
and might help some.  Perhaps a good solution would be to make the newuser
command somewhat scriptable, so it could create directories and the like
on the appropriate filesystems all at once.  Or maybe add a small script
function or macro facility to the command interpreter on the filesystem
console.  But then, we're getting pretty close to something like a real
shell.

	- Dan C.