news@upaya.UUCP (Tom Betz) (09/18/89)
I installed patch 18 the other day, and had this occur... thereafter I removed it and reinstalled patchlevel 17, but the problem has remained. In some news groups, not all, and aparrently the groups with the most traffic (naturally, where it causes the most trouble!) inews has decided to number articles in a most irrational manner: listing of /usr/spool/news/news/admin: total 184 drwxrwxrwx 2 news news 4704 Sep 17 02:42 ./ drwxrwxrwx 12 news news 192 Aug 16 02:07 ../ -rw-rw-rw- 3 news news 760 Sep 17 02:42 10 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 832 Sep 17 02:41 100 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1021 Sep 17 02:42 1010 -rw-rw-rw- 3 news news 1719 Sep 17 02:42 10110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 2675 Sep 17 02:09 2 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 705 Sep 17 02:10 3 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 3686 Sep 17 02:09 30 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1383 Sep 17 02:10 310 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1106 Sep 17 02:10 3110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1895 Sep 17 02:10 31110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 2334 Sep 17 02:11 4 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1295 Sep 17 02:11 40 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1794 Sep 17 02:11 410 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 3177 Sep 17 02:11 4110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1334 Sep 17 02:11 41110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 781 Sep 17 02:13 5 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1750 Sep 17 02:11 50 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1385 Sep 17 02:12 510 -rw-rw-rw- 3 news news 1208 Sep 17 02:13 5110 -rw-rw-rw- 3 news news 1509 Sep 17 02:13 51110 -rw-rw-rw- 3 news news 1668 Sep 17 02:39 6 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 710 Sep 17 02:15 60 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 658 Sep 17 02:16 610 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1084 Sep 17 02:16 6110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1952 Sep 17 02:16 61110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 2209 Sep 17 02:40 7 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 3534 Sep 17 02:39 70 -rw-rw-rw- 2 news news 12218 Sep 17 02:39 710 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 3314 Sep 17 02:40 7110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 827 Sep 17 02:40 71110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 714 Sep 17 02:41 8 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 655 Sep 17 02:40 80 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 782 Sep 17 02:41 810 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 722 Sep 17 02:41 8110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 940 Sep 17 02:41 81110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1429 Sep 17 02:41 9 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 807 Sep 17 02:41 90 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 767 Sep 17 02:41 910 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 761 Sep 17 02:41 9110 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1238 Sep 17 02:41 91110 listing of /usr/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc: total 66 drwxrwxrwx 4 news news 8336 Sep 17 02:52 ./ drwxrwxrwx 3 news news 48 Jun 2 01:39 ../ -rw-rw-rw- 2 news news 461 Sep 17 02:11 2 -rw-rw-rw- 2 news news 1216 Sep 17 02:13 27 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1065 Sep 17 02:44 277 -rw-rw-rw- 2 news news 725 Sep 17 02:45 2777 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1193 Sep 17 02:47 27777 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1667 Sep 17 02:47 3 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1495 Sep 17 02:48 37 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1187 Sep 17 02:49 377 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 1195 Sep 17 02:50 3777 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 794 Sep 17 02:51 37777 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 3188 Sep 17 02:52 4 drwxrwxrwx 2 news news 112 Sep 1 14:15 digest/ drwxrwxrwx 2 news news 576 Sep 16 15:15 rt/ These are just two of many such examples. This just started happening after I installed patch 18. I reinstalled patchlevel 17 (no, I didn't mix the sources), did an expire -i0, and then an expire -r, to wipe the message base and start over. The results you see above are the result of the first night's feed after reinstalling pl17. Any news gurus out there have an idea what gives here? As you may imagine, it really slows down news reading to have to skip 10,000 articles... HELP!! -- "There are no magicians. There are no hidden | rutgers!lilink!upaya!tbetz people or gurus somewhere in secret. You have | Tom Betz, Greyston Foundation already been given the teaching by the greatest | 114 Woodworth Ave. illuminated sages born." - Gopi Krishna | Yonkers, NY 10701-2509