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.
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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


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