cron FIFO in mounted spool filesystem

[Roger Knopf 5502]

In article <8224 at scorn.sco.COM> I wrote:
>
>In article <732 at wshb.csms.com> michaelb at wshb.csms.com ( WSHB Operations Eng) writes:
>>I'm trying to move my /usr/spool directory to a seperate filesystem on a
>>second hard disk in SCO XENIX 386 2.3.2.
>
>The FIFO is there for crontab to communicate with cron. You can make
>it in your new filesystem by doing:

[ useless technical stuff deleted ]

Chip Rosenthal wisely pointed out that since cron starts before the
file systems are mounted, my above solution won't work. He suggests
either to hack /etc/rc.d to reverse the order (and neither he nor
I recommend doing this) or pick some lower directory than /usr/spool
(/usr/spool/news) and make _that_ the mounted file system.

Thanks for the assist, Chip.

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