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From: sadler@heurikon.heurikon.com (Jonathan Sadler)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How to prevent links.
Summary: We did a patch localy
Keywords: INODES EXDEV linking
Message-ID: <363@heurikon.heurikon.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 18:17:44 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.043241.16040@tygra.UUCP>
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In article <1991Apr10.043241.16040@tygra.UUCP> jp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:
>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). 

We had a similar problem here last Dec.

>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?? 

We did a local patch to B-news' inews/rnews to handle this condition.
If interested, I can clean up the patch and send it to you.

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

Nope.  We are using SVR3 here.

Jonathan Sadler