Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!dan From: dan@maccs.McMaster.CA (Dan Trottier) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on >1 fs? Message-ID: <1291@maccs.McMaster.CA> Date: 7 Jul 88 12:48:24 GMT Article-I.D.: maccs.1291 References: <161@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <4276@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier) Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can. Lines: 18 In article <4276@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes: >News shouldn't trash filesystems like that, but we'll chalk that up to >problems in the UNIX you run. Did you say System V? > >Anyway, you have a couple of options, none of them especially pretty. > > [options deleted] Or if your site is a BSD derivative you could always use symbolic links into other filesystems! It actually sounds easier to switch from System V to BSD than do some of the things Erik suggests :-) dan -- A.I. - is a three toed sloth! | ...!uunet!mnetor!maccs!dan -- Official scrabble players dictionary -- | dan@mcmaster.BITNET