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From: jp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer)
Subject: How to prevent links.
Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing System, Detroit, MI
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 04:32:41 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.043241.16040@tygra.UUCP>

I had to carve up my /usr/spool filesystem into /usr/spool and 
/usr/spool/news/comp because I was running out of INODES. (This
is a SCO XENIX 2.3.2 system). 

Problem is that relaynews was returning 'bad' after most batches.
The problem turned out to be with newsgroups crossposted to comp
and some other hierarchy. relaynews would try to create a symbolic
link instead of a duplicate copy of the article and would run into
problems as XENIX doesn't allow cross-filesystem symbolic links. 

Is there any way to fix this?? It seems unreasonable to expect that all
news will always be on the same partition as XENIX allows a maximum
of only 65500 inodes per filesystem.

Also, what is the latest version of CNEWS?? We have patches through
12-MAR-1990. Also, what archive server would have a copy of the 
patch program?? 

Does anyone know wether REAL UNIX SVR3 allows cross-filesystem links??

Thanks.
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