symlink of /home causes mail delivery failure
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Thu Oct 11 14:20:32 UTC 2007
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried to make my /home directory a symlink to something on a
> different disk (i.e., symlink across filesystems). It appeared to work
> fine when browsing directories, but mail delivery stopped!
>
> I'm using Postfix, with procmail doing the local delivery.
>
> Is there any reason that procmail (or anything else) would fail if
> /home is a symlink?
>
> - Mike
>
I would not know. Depends on the type of link perhaps? My /home is
also in a different partition but I connect it to this main tree with an
entry in /ect/fstab and mine looks like this:
[karl at k5di ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda6 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
Notice the line for /home and this has home look and feel like it is
attached. But do a $df and it will show you it is really /dev/sda7
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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