restructure mails

[yls177]

in unix, the mails are going to the /var. understood that we could
actually restructure this.
this is because, our print spool is going to this directory as well so
space is an issue here
but how can we do this?

thanks

[Juha Laiho]

[email]yls177@hotmail.com[/email] (yls177) said:

>in unix, the mails are going to the /var. understood that we could
>actually restructure this.
>this is because, our print spool is going to this directory as well so
>space is an issue here

Two ways;

Find a separate storage device for either your mail spool or your print
spool, and mount that device to where your print (or mail) spool is.
So, the path names will remain the same, but you'll get the disk area
segregation and the additional storage space you're wishing for.

Reconfigure either your mail server (which you didn't care to name) or
your print server to use some other spool path. Easiest way to avoid
problems is to leave a symlink in the current spool location pointing
to the new spool location.

In either case, mind the permissions..
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[yls177]

Juha Laiho <Juha.Laiho@iki.fi> wrote in message news:<c63b5c$p31$2@ichaos.ichaos-int>...

> [email]yls177@hotmail.com[/email] (yls177) said:

> >in unix, the mails are going to the /var. understood that we could
> >actually restructure this.
> >this is because, our print spool is going to this directory as well so
> >space is an issue here

>
> Two ways;
>
> Find a separate storage device for either your mail spool or your print
> spool, and mount that device to where your print (or mail) spool is.
> So, the path names will remain the same, but you'll get the disk area
> segregation and the additional storage space you're wishing for.
>
> Reconfigure either your mail server (which you didn't care to name) or
> your print server to use some other spool path. Easiest way to avoid
> problems is to leave a symlink in the current spool location pointing
> to the new spool location.
>
> In either case, mind the permissions..

any commands for us to check the name of the mail server?

thanks

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 25 Apr 2004 21:28:52 -0700, yls177 <yls177@hotmail.com> poured
into the usenet group comp.unix.admin:
<snip>

> any commands for us to check the name of the mail server?

Telnet to port 25 and capture the banner? Check your system logs?

Devdas Bhagat