Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!rogerk From: rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: cron FIFO in mounted spool filesystem Keywords: cron FIFO spool Message-ID: <8353@scorn.sco.COM> Date: 25 Jul 90 02:22:55 GMT References: <732@wshb.csms.com> <8224@scorn.sco.COM> Sender: news@sco.COM Reply-To: rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) Distribution: na Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 25 In article <8224@scorn.sco.COM> I wrote: > >In article <732@wshb.csms.com> michaelb@wshb.csms.com ( WSHB Operations Eng) writes: >>I'm trying to move my /usr/spool directory to a seperate filesystem on a >>second hard disk in SCO XENIX 386 2.3.2. > >The FIFO is there for crontab to communicate with cron. You can make >it in your new filesystem by doing: [ useless technical stuff deleted ] Chip Rosenthal wisely pointed out that since cron starts before the file systems are mounted, my above solution won't work. He suggests either to hack /etc/rc.d to reverse the order (and neither he nor I recommend doing this) or pick some lower directory than /usr/spool (/usr/spool/news) and make _that_ the mounted file system. Thanks for the assist, Chip. -- Roger Knopf SCO Consulting Services "The True Believers will...formulate uunet!sco!rogerk or rogerk@sco.com a message that even a monkey could 408-425-7222 (voice) 408-458-4227 (fax) understand." --Jeff Tye