Re: [leafnode-list] trying to change home directory for news...

["Michael O'Quinn" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Jeff Grossman wrote:

> on 12/17/02 12:02 PM, Gino Filicetti at gino@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Guys,
> > 
> > I'm looked over the website and searched the archives of this mailing
> > list, but I couldn't find any info pertaining to the following. Please
> > excuse me if this has been answered already.
> > 
> > I'm trying to have leafnode live in "/home/news" instead of
> > "/var/spool/news".... the reason being that I have to partitions:
> > 
> > - / - 4GB
> > - /home - 80GB
> > 
> > As you can imagine, I would much rather keep leafnode and all the
> > downloaded articles on my biggest drive.
> > 
> > So my question: Is the /var/spool/news directory hardcoded into
> > leafnode? Or can I change this setting?
> > 
> > Thank you for any help,
> > 
> > G
> It is a compile time option.  You will need to recompile Leafnode.
> 
> Jeff
> 

Another option would to move the files, delete the directory
/var/spool/news, then make a symlink at /var/spool/news pointing to
/home/news.  This way leafnode et. al. will still think they are running
out of /var/spool/news.

There is a slight performance hit with symlinks, but it shouldn't be all
THAT bad.

Michael O'Quinn

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