jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) (03/03/90)
Newsgroup: news.software.b
Subject: Strange article numbers...
I've been seeing some curious behavior of this Bnews 11 level 18 system.
The control and junk groups have funny-numbered articles. For instance,
right now the control group contains:
1 303 4 4030303 50303 603 7
2 30303 403 5 5030303 60303
3 3030303 40303 503 6 6030303
and junk contains files with similar names, though they mostly end with
strings of 01. The log file complains about invalid ngsizes:
Mar 2 23:22 <119@minya.UUCP> inews: found bad ngsize 603030302 ng control, setting to 1
When I look into the active file, the entries for control and junk look
like:
control 0000050303 0000000000 y
Note that both numbers are longer than the regulation 7 digits. They are
usually 9 digits; I've seen 11.
Any ideas? This is a newly-installed level 18 news system, as you can
no doubt see. The makeactive script hadn't been upgraded to make the
7-digit numbers, and I had to make that 1-line patch. But this one is
apparently not as easy to solve.
[This is a test of my new Post script, which I can feed files with To:
and/or Newsgroup: lines, and it does the obvious thing. Let's see if
it works...]
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John Chambers ...!{harvard,ima,mit-eddie}!minya!jc
[Sorry, no clever saying today.]