On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:09:41PM +0100, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: > So, the root-user might want the files to be physically installed on > /raid1, e.g. /raid1/mydata, so that a user "blah" (/raid1/home/blah) > can make a hardlink from /raid1/home/blah/afile to > /raid1/mydata/afile.
if the local sysadmin wants this, then they can move-and-symlink the directories to wherever they want. e.g. say your package uses /var/foo, but the sysadmin wants that data to be in /raid1/home/foo: mv /var/foo /raid1/home/ # alternatively use "cp -af" or "tar" # followed by "rm -rf" ln -s /raid1/home/foo /var/ this doesn't require any weird or special-case handling in the package. it's a fairly normal systems administration task. for example, it's not at all uncommon to move-and-symlink /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc to another partition when the /usr partition is too small. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch