:I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers.
:
:In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root.  And
:in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a
:non-responding server, it hangs root logins.
:
:Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machine B
:to be up.
:
:Rahul

    You should be able to fix this trivially in /etc/login.conf.  Look
    at the standard: entry's setenv for MAIL and do something similar for
    root's, pointing MAIL somewhere else.  I haven't tried this myself,
    but it should work.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
                                        <dil...@backplane.com>


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