Subj : permission denied error To : Michael Dukelsky From : mark lewis Date : Sun Dec 03 2017 07:53 pm On 2017 Dec 03 22:47:12, you wrote to me: ml>> currently: ml>> mail is tossed, packaged and placed in a central outbound. ml>> tool moves outbound mail to BSO & fileboxes. ml>> proposed: ml>> mail is tossed, packaged and placed in a central outbound. ml>> tool moves outbound mail to 2nd staging area on same disk as binkd. MD> Yes, this 2nd staging area is just a temporary outbound in terms of hpt. So MD> since you use hpt you already have it. HPT is run on my point system... not on my main system where i was speking of... ml>> tool moves outbound mail from 2nd staging area to BSO & fileboxes. MD> You don't have to move to temporary outbound the mail destined to BSO. it is one or none... no choice... ml>> remember, not everyone has huge disks and fast modern machines for ml>> this stuff... MD> You don't have to enlarge your partitions or have a faster machine. When MD> you do the first move, the files occupy the same extent as they do in your MD> present scheme but just the filename is in a different directory. The MD> second move does not change the occupied size and it is fast because the MD> file contents is not moved. It is the file "passport" (filename and some MD> other technical info) that is moved to a different directory. the problem is configuring the tool to the 2nd staging area... i would do better to rewrite the tool in 4OS2... MD> So the only problem is your tool. If you have its sources you may MD> change it. it is/was a closed tool... it may come back but that depends on if the sources are still available... FD is being ported now but i don't know if the sources to this tool are included in that porting... MD> If you haven't then you may use some scripting language MD> (cmd/4DOS/4OS2, you name it) to make the second move or replace your MD> tool with the new script completely. yeah... but that code is a bit of a PITA... i do have a routine for BSO stuffs but no clean way to include it like in linux where you just source a file... MD> BTW I don't understand why you need any special tool to move mail to MD> outbound. You use hpt, don't you? And hpt can correctly move mail to MD> fileboxes via temporary outbound. i shouldn't need HPT to do a dual move if i could use HPT on the main system... i don't even know if there's a viable HPT for my OS/2 anyway... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... Boy, I'm glad this hospital has pretty nurses :-) --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .