Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!mintaka!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!jtkohl From: jtkohl@MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: "standalone" perl scripts Message-ID: <1990Mar2.200205.21162@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 2 Mar 90 23:02:29 GMT References: <7007@pitt.UUCP> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: al@jupiter.cs.pittsburgh.edu's message of 2 Mar 90 16:34:25 GMT In article <7007@pitt.UUCP> al@jupiter.cs.pittsburgh.edu (Alan Martello) writes: > I installed perl in /usr/local/bin with its lib in /usr/local/lib/perl > Yes, I know that I can get around this problem by simply moving the > library (if this is indeed why the filesystem isn't getting unmounted) > but I would prefer not to have to do this. You mentioned SunOS, so you might try making /usr/local/lib/perl a symbolic link off to some other place on a different partition. Then if your perl doing the backups reads libraries before unmounting, you should be all set. -- John Kohl or Digital Equipment Corporation/Project Athena (The above opinions are MINE. Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)