symlink of /home causes mail delivery failure

Alastair Neil ajneil at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 16:15:18 UTC 2007


On 10/11/07, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak <mjc at avtechpulse.com> wrote:
>
> >> Is there any reason that procmail (or anything else) would fail if
> >> /home is a symlink?
> >>
> >    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
>
> I was hoping to avoid dedicating a whole partition to /home, so I'm
> trying the symlink approach instead. Except procmail doesn't seem to be
> doing the right thing...
>
> - Mike



IMO  a separate partition is a very sensible idea, it allows you to upgrade
and re-install the system without losing your precious data.  However in
this case a bind mount might solve your problem:

mount -rbind /where-ever/home /home
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