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From: "Steve Lalonde" <steve@enta.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: INN setup on group of drives
Date: 5 Aug 1996 08:09:10 GMT
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All you need to do is add a -l to the flags in expire.ctl and all will be
fine

i have mounted 1 drive as news/spool
another as news/spool/alt
another as news/spool/comp
and one as news/spool/rec

my server has been stable since i set it up like this.

steve


Brian G. <briang@access5.digex.net> wrote in article
<4tk0i9$fvv@access5.digex.net>...
> I want to set up a news server using a few 1GB & 2GB drives for
> the news spool, instead of a single big drive.
> 
> Can INN handle this correctly by simply using symbolic links (eg: alt ->
> /news1/alt, comp -> /news2/comp, etc)?  Do I have to set up anything
> different with BSDI2.1 or will it support this feature out of the box?
> 
> 	 TIA, 
> 
> 	  - bg
>