Red Hat/Fedora on Sun Sparc

[Mihir Sahu]

Hi All,
  Will Fedora/Red Hat work on Sun Sparc Boxes.  If not, is there any free
linux that would work on SUN SPARC.  Thanks
Regards
Mihir
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bob McClure
Jr
Sent: 11 March 2005 00:23
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: procmailrc question


On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:02:00PM -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:50 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: procmailrc question
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:41:27PM -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > > Ok.. good question here.
> > >
> > > If I don't want an /etc/.procmailrc, and I have users that have an
> > > invalid $HOME path on the sendmail server, how can I support
> .procmailrc
> > > files for those users as procmail only appears to look at
> > > $HOME/.procmailrc.
> >
> > Not true.  Procmail looks at /etc/procmailrc (not /etc/.procmailrc)
> > and then at $HOME/.procmailrc.  Note also that the latter must be
> > owned by the user and be writable only by that user (644 perms).
> >
> > I'm curious.  What users have an invalid $HOME, and why?
>
> In short, I have a mess here.
>
> We have multiple user account file systems.  The one for our sendmail
> server is say /acct, the one for our HP machines would be /acct.hp.  But
> our sendmail server also mounts that so mail can be handled properly.
>
> The problem is, I can't create user directories in /acct, even if it's
> just to put a .procmailrc link to their /acct.hp directory.
>
> So I need procmail to be able to use /acct/username/.procmailrc
> (otherwise known as $HOME) and /acct.hp/username/.procmailrc.
>
> Hope that made some sense.

Hmm.  Well, sendmail determines each user's HOME directory from
/etc/passwd.  That (his HOME) is where the user's .procmailrc should
reside.  How does that relate to the two user worlds?

Cheers,
--
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
Worry is a waste of the imagination.

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