[news.software.b] Problem with expire/rnews

ton@rwzl10.UUCP (Ton Damen) (01/17/91)

Hello netpeople,


We have a problem with the news programmes (programs?), we can't remove (expire) news from our system. We 've got the following messages:


Jan 10 10:59	news	inews: freopen(E): No such file or directory
Jan 10 10:59	Unknown	inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/.bad/E
Jan 10 10:59	news	inews: freopen(T@): No such file or directory
Jan 10 10:59	Unknown	inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/.bad/T@
Jan 10 10:59	news	inews: freopen(3fb3): No such file or directory
Jan 10 10:59	Unknown	inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/.bad/3fb3
Jan 10 10:59	news	inews: freopen(E): No such file or directory
Jan 10 10:59	Unknown	inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/.bad/E
Jan 10 10:59	news	inews: freopen(T@): No such file or directory
Jan 10 10:59	Unknown	inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/.bad/T@
Jan 10 10:59	news	inews: freopen(3fb3): No such file or directory
Jan 10 10:59	Unknown	inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/.bad/3fb3
Jan 10 10:59	news	inews: freopen(E): No such file or directory
Jan 10 10:59	Unknown	inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/.bad/E
Jan 10 10:59	news	inews: freopen(T@): No such file or directory
...

and so on,

We don't get errors when we receive, post or read newsmessages.
What could be the problem? The inews program is version 2.93.

Thanks in advance,

Ton Damen


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