spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) (05/04/86)
Site "gatech" is running one of the beta versions of 2.10.3. Beta
means that it is not yet known whether all the bugs are out. Now we
know -- they aren't.
Last night I ran "expire -f Unknown@hplabs.UUCP" to clean out all the
cruft caused by someone's runaway software over at hplabs. Unbeknownst
to me, "expire" went through and deleted all but about 200 local and
regional articles. Virtually everything in the "net" and "mod" groups
got killed.
Results:
1) News passing though gatech and not yet batched never got out. This
is about 5 hours of news flow to/from our backbone partners (akgua,
seismo, drillsys). The idea behind dual connectivity for backbone
sites implies that no news really got lost, although it may take longer
to reach some sites.
2) Leaf nodes fed by gatech (and gatech itself) will never see those
articles mentioned in #1. Sorry.
3) Articles posted during that time period (between 6pm and 11 pm
Saturday) on gatech and leaf nodes fed by gatech may never make it to
the net and should be reposted.
4) The May postings to "net.announce.newusers" may or may not have
made it out before the loss (they didn't get posted automatically on
the 1st because of a machine failure and I posted them by hand
yesterday). If you receive them all, please let me know. If I
haven't heard that they got out, I'll repost them on the 7th.
5) If you are running any version of 2.10.3 you probably DO NOT
want to run expire with the "-f" option.
6) Users of "gatech" who weren't caught up on their news reading are
now saved from that chore. The news isn't there to read. Anyone
here needing to recover a specific article should look for it on
one of the other machines (e.g., gitpyr, stratus, oscar).
We now return you to the disaster, already in progress.
--
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ Relay.CS.NET
uucp: ...!{akgua,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf