sjb (11/04/82)
Readnews gets confused when you hang up on it. I ran a: nohup readnews -p >/dev/null 2>/dev/null& to get rid of old news on rabbit (I read news on alice but try to keep my .newsrc file on rabbit as up to date as possible) and then proceeded to hang up. I came back later to find that it did indeed read all of my news and recorded that in the right way, but IT REMOVED MY OPTIONS LINE FROM .newsrc !!! On a hunch, I ran the same command again and hung up, but this time I called back and got on the same port that I had hung up on and made sure I was on when it finished its work. This time, it did not remove my options line. So, it appears that the SIGHUP didn't bother it (since nohup took care of that), but readnews doesn't like it when it finishes and finds that you're not on the port you used to be on. Anyone find this?