Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!killer!vector!rpp386!pigs!haugj
From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on >1 fs?
Summary: Fake it
Keywords: many small disks (<40M), hard links, trashed fs
Message-ID: <240@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 88 15:17:58 GMT
References: <161@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Evil USENET User)
Organization: Big "D" Oil and Gas
Lines: 28

In article <161@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>I suppose that this subject has erupted before but, obviously, i don't
>have the information that was revealed in that thrashing... (sigh...)
>
>In B2.11.14 News a "problem" that i have noticed that affects the running of my
>systems directly is that News seems to demand that /usr/spool/news, if mounted
>on a seperate file system, not have any seperate file systems mounted as sub-
>directories.  Permit me an example:

if worst comes to worst you could hack the software to believe it was
running on eunice which doesn't have links to begin with.  i haven't
looked at the code to see how news handles eunice systems, but i do
know that just like on a unix system, news under eunice does not make
multiple copies of an article.

check out the config.h and defs.h files for both the news source and
the rn source.  the appropriate defines should be there.  also, thanks
to larry wall for the wonderful eunice hacks.

- john.

ps - please don't include local distributions.  the mn.general group
gagged my ancient inews.
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