From: vince@victrola.wa.com (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: nfs mounted mail directories Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 03:48:51 GMT
marc@io.org (Marc G. Fournier) writes:
> I need to nfs mount the mail directory from our central
>file server so that local users can read their email, but I'm
>having a problem with it :(
> Also, on the same note...if someone sends to someone
>that smail knows is local to the machine, it tries to write to
>this nfs mounted mail directory, but it fails. Since smail is
>setuid to root, on a normal file system the mail would get
>written correctly, even if the mail folder is 600...but over
>the nfs mount, root has no 'special' privileges...is there a
>way around this?
The answer is generally 'yes' depending on the variant of unix you are
running locally and remotely. The answer differs depending on the system
you're mounting. You did not provide enough information to permit a
definitive answer.
[...semi-flame on...]
I'm not going to sweat answering the question since it's not specific to
linux. There are a number of newsgroups you should have asked it in
including (but not limited to):
comp.protocols.tcpip
comp.unix.admin
comp.protocols.nfs
(all above from memory so don't hang me...)
Noise like the above question is what needlessly increases the volume
in comp.os.linux...
[...semi-flame off...]
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