From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: UUSQUISH? Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4990 Posted: Thu Dec 30 14:15:53 1982 Received: Sat Jan 1 02:18:51 1983 From: Chris TorekDate: 29 Dec 82 09:57:37 EST (Wed) Can't this be done as a shell script? I've used the following before: cd /usr/spool mkdir newuucp chown uucp newuucp chmod 777 newuucp ln uucp/* newuucp # note: uucp/* always matches at least 3(?) files mv uucp uucpx ; mv newuucp uucp rm -rf uucpx This can even be done in multi-user mode, as long as those two 'mv's get done quickly.