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From: mvadh@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: second disk partitions on UNIXPC
Message-ID: <12028@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 89 11:39:14 GMT
References: <1049@icus.islp.ny.us>
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In article <1049@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
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"In any case, I do have /tmp mounted, and have found the problems that
"exist.  Like John said, most of them are things that exploit that point
"that "ln" works faster than "mv" but never take into account that you
"_might_ have more than one partition and you can't ln across filesystems.
"
"The best solution to this is to "hand-Install" your programs.  Or at
"the very least fix the "Install" script found on the installtion disks
"and then re-cpio it up to be installed through the UA.
"
"Of course you could umount /tmp when you are doing Software Installations.

what if you make ksh the standard SHELL for install, and make a .kshrc
file with alias -x ln=mv ?

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