From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 25 12:39:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07062 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07055 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:39:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04601; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:39:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA11128; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:38:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:38:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Jamie Bowden cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: moving stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone knows the right way to move /var/spool into, > > say, /usr? I don't have a real large /root partition (30 megs) and > > having the printer spool area there is a pain, while my /usr and /usr2 > > partitions are huge and available. I don't see where lpr especially > > allows for redirecting things. I'd like to move mail, bu the printer > > spooler is the worst offender. > > I mv'd the spool directory to /usr, then softlinked it back to /var. > Works fine for me. I tried that last night, but the system continued to look for the files in /var/spool. I changed the sd stuff in printcap, and mv'ed the directories. I'll try it again, maybe I fumblefingered part of it. > > Jamie Bowden > > Network Administrator, TBI Ltd. > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------