bossert@dataio.UUCP (John Bossert) (12/21/84)
A few days ago, gatech!spaf posted a script which would allow local
news administrators to run a local checkgroups on their active file.
I inadvertantly (yes, I'm new at this), moved this file to
/usr/lib/news/checkgroups and then executed the file. Suddenly, I
started receiving carriage returns on my screen: the only way to
fix the problem was to log out.
Later, while examining the news log file, I noticed hundreds of
local checkgroup postings. I had launched an infinite loop by
moving gatech!spaf's script to checkgroup where it kept calling
itself.
My fix(?) was to rename spaf's script to chkgrps.local
Just a warning to other novice news administrators: The cycles you
save may be your own :-)
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John Bossert
Data I/O Corporation
Redmond, WA
uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!{bossert,usenet}