larry (09/02/82)
Well, after conquering the problem we were having on that PDP 11/70, I've stumbled upon something else. Picture this-- on one machine (a vax) I have the netnews system that the "average users" access -- and my private version that I use for testing. Both are entirely seperate, NO common files or dirs. Here comes the tricky part. I would like to set up a direct feed between two netnews systems. Indeed I have the arrangement working IF I go thru the local net (the "rje" usend net). This seems rather silly to spool off a job just to go from one corner of the machine to another. However, when I change the command portion of the "sys" file entry to call my private 'rnews' directly, I get Article lock up's. If I switch to using redirection to save the file, then cat the file into my 'rnews' it works. Is there some reason why I can't have an UNRELATED inews and rnews running at the same time?? thanks, Larry Marek ihuxw!larry Bell Labs, Naperville
mark (09/02/82)
What's happening is that inews creates a lock file in /tmp on a per-article-id basis. If two inewes are running at the same time with the same /tmp, they will lock each other out. There is no provision for a configurable lock file directory in inews, because this situation was never anticipated. However, it seems straightforward to move one of the lock directories to /usr/tmp or somewhere else.