Duane Percox wrote:

> I would like to voice my support for Andreas' comments. If you
> keep the acct on one (1) volume set then you can go further and
> cause any 'newgroups' within that account to be on the correct
> volume-set by interrogating the PUB group dynamically at newgroup
> time. This removes the need for everyone to keep remembering
> the particular volume-sets in use.

i'll point out that the newacct/newgroup collections of udcs has this
functionality built into them.  part of what comes with the 'package'
is a command file -- blduvol -- that creates a reference file for all
accounts on the system that *don't* live on the system volume.  the
reference file is user edittable (if you want).  personally, i
incorportate blduvol into my weekly job that creates a new slt.  that
way, it's always reasonably up-to-date (which is fine in my
environment).  additionally, the newacct udc has 'hooks' in it to
update this file when a newacct is created on a private
volume.          - d

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