root@sporty.UUCP (Super user) (02/04/91)
I have two questions (being new to news administration):
1. Can anybody tell me what the following messages mean:
From root Mon Feb 4 00:00:00 1991
To: news
Date: Mon Feb 4 00:00:00 1991
df: /usr/spool not block special
expr: syntax error
/usr/lib/news/sendbatch: test: argument expected
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Cron: The previous message is the standard output
and standard error of one of your cron commands.
From root Mon Feb 4 02:00:01 1991
To: news
Date: Mon Feb 4 02:00:01 1991
df: /usr/spool not block special
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Cron: The previous message is the standard output
and standard error of one of your cron commands.
2. When you get a notice for a news group and you are set up
to manually create them, how do you do it without sending
control messages throughout all of creation?
E-mail responses are fine (jaa@rsch.oclc.org - or -
sporty!jeff@ursa-major.spdcc.com)
Thanks!tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (02/05/91)
In article <35@sporty.UUCP> root@sporty.UUCP (Super user) writes:
1. Can anybody tell me what the following messages mean:
df: /usr/spool not block special
expr: syntax error
/usr/lib/news/sendbatch: test: argument expected
It means you're on a lame machine. More specifically, your /usr/spool
is either not the root of a partition or if it is that your df
requires a /dev/PARTITION as an argument. I suspect the latter. The
other errors are probably coming from a variable not being set because
df tossed its cookies.
2. When you get a notice for a news group and you are set up
to manually create them, how do you do it without sending
control messages throughout all of creation?
By using $NEWSBIN/maint/addgroup and ..../rmgroup. It is useful to
have $NEWSBIN/maint in your news admin account PATH.
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(setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (02/05/91)
In article <+K%&_?$@rpi.edu> tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: In article <35@sporty.UUCP> root@sporty.UUCP (Super user) writes: /usr/lib/news/sendbatch: test: argument expected John Palkovic has pointed out that this is a pretty good clue to a B News system; imagine that, someone posting a B News question in news.software.b. I actually looked for sendbatch in my $NEWSBIN, too, but assumed it not being there or not in $NEWSCTL was because I removed it for my lack of UUCP connexions. So, that make this bogus: By using $NEWSBIN/maint/addgroup and ..../rmgroup. It is useful to have $NEWSBIN/maint in your news admin account PATH. In B News, use inews -d local -C group.name to create a group, possibly adding the moderated keyword if you need it. Read the inews manual page. Also, B News has its own rmgroup command, I believe in /usr/lib/news, which you should use for taking them out. In the line above, "rmgroup" was a blunder that I just noticed. The C News script which really takes them out is called delgroup in maint/. -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))
bruce@balilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly) (02/06/91)
In article <35@sporty.UUCP> sporty!jeff@ursa-major.spdcc.com(Jeff Anderson) writes: > > df: /usr/spool not block special Some (many?) versions of df require the arg to be a special device or mount point. If /usr/spool is neither, such a message will result. I hacked together a replacement for df which will accept any directory as the arg. The output format matches the df output as supplied for the AT&T 3B1 (for some bizarre reason, C news thinks it's xenix!). Here it is, no warranty. If Henry and/or Geoff wish to include this in future C news distributions, that's fine with me. I modeled this after the AT&T SVR3+ man page, but it's incomplete (although entirely satisfactory for C news use). This must run suid root. ======================================================================= /* @(#)df.c 1.1 12/10/89 16:46:39 */ #ifndef lint static char df_c_sccs_id[] = "@(#)df.c 1.1"; #endif #include <string.h> #include <sys/filsys.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <mnttab.h> #include <ustat.h> #include <stdio.h> extern char *optarg; extern int optind, opterr; enum boolean {false=0, true}; char *opts = "ltf"; char *mnttab = "/etc/mnttab"; void usage(char *prog) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: usage: %s [-lt] [-f] [file system | directory | mounted-resource]\n", prog, prog); } main(int argc, char **argv) { enum boolean total=false, local=false, freelist=false; int c, fd; struct filsys filsysbuf; struct stat statbuf, statbuf2; struct ustat ustatbuf; struct mnttab mnttabbuf; char device[sizeof(struct mnttab)/2+6]; while((c = getopt(argc, argv, opts)) != -1) switch(c) { case 'l': /* local only */ local=true; /* doesn't matter for 3b1 */ break; case 't': /* total */ total = true; break; case 'f': /* free list count */ freelist=true; break; default: usage(argv[0]); break; } if((fd = open(mnttab, O_RDONLY)) < 0) { perror("open of mnttab"); exit(__LINE__); } strcpy(device, "/dev/"); if(optind == argc) { /* no args - do all mounted systems */ while(read(fd, (char *)&mnttabbuf, sizeof(struct mnttab)) > 0) { if(stat(strcat(device, mnttabbuf.mt_dev), &statbuf) < 0) { perror("stat"); fprintf(stderr, "tried to stat %s\n", device); exit(__LINE__); } if(ustat(statbuf.st_dev, &ustatbuf) < 0) { perror("ustat"); exit(__LINE__); } printf("%-10s(%-10s): %8ld blocks %7u i-nodes\n", mnttabbuf.mt_filsys, device, ustatbuf.f_tfree, ustatbuf.f_tinode); } } else for(; optind < argc ; optind++) { /* args */ if(stat(argv[optind], &statbuf) < 0) { perror("stat"); fprintf(stderr, "tried to stat %s\n", argv[optind]); exit(__LINE__); } if(ustat(statbuf.st_dev, &ustatbuf) < 0) { perror("ustat"); exit(__LINE__); } if(lseek(fd, 0, 0) < 0) { perror("rewind of mnttab file"); exit(__LINE__); } while(read(fd, (char *)&mnttabbuf, sizeof(struct mnttab)) > 0) { if(stat(strcat(device, mnttabbuf.mt_dev), &statbuf2) < 0) { perror("stat"); fprintf(stderr, "tried to stat %s\n", device); exit(__LINE__); } if(statbuf.st_dev == statbuf2.st_dev) { printf("%-10s(%-10s): %8ld blocks %7u i-nodes\n", mnttabbuf.mt_filsys, device, ustatbuf.f_tfree, ustatbuf.f_tinode); break; } } } close(fd); if(total) { if((fd = open(device, O_RDONLY)) < 0) { perror("open of device"); exit(__LINE__); } if(lseek(fd, BSIZE, 0) < 0) { perror("seek to superblock"); exit(__LINE__); } if(read(fd, (char *)&filsysbuf, sizeof(struct filsys)) <= 0) { perror("read of superblock"); exit(__LINE__); } close(fd); printf("%22s: %8ld blocks %7u i-nodes\n", "total", filsysbuf.s_fsize*Fs2b, (filsysbuf.s_isize-2)*sizeof(ino_t)*8); } exit(0); } ======================================================================= -- Bruce Lilly blilly!balilly!bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM