drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley) (10/08/87)
We've been running news 2.11 for quite a while, first on a Vax with Ultrix and now on a Sun. Our sys file looks like: culdev1:net,world,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,mod,mit.bboard,ma,ne,usa,na,cullinet,to.culdev1,to.ll-xn,to.necntc:: ll-xn:net,world,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,mod,ma,ne,usa,na,to.ll-xn,!junk:L: necntc:net,world,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,mod,ma,ne,usa,na,to.necntc,!junk:L: maps:world,comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/lib/news/maps/comp.mail.maps/Batch docs:world,news.announce.newusers,news.misc:F:/usr/lib/news/incoming-docs junk:net,world,na,usa,ne,ma,junk:F:/usr/lib/news/new-junk The last line is so that anything that is dropped in junk gets listed in the file /usr/lib/news/new-junk. We have a crontab script that picks up this file and finds the newsgroups mentioned and creates them. (I know that this is not a wonderful system management practice, but it keeps the manual maintenance down, and the next checkgroups message will clean out any garbage groups that get created.) This mechanism worked fine on the Vax. However, it seems to be breaking on the Sun. (Perhaps because of bad patching?) In particular, the file generally gets the *wrong* file names in it. In this case, absolutely none of the file names are in junk, and none of the new messages in junk are listed in the file. (And the number of entries in the file is wrong, too, so it's not just substituting one filename for another.) We have the same problem with the 'docs' line in the sys file, also. Does anyone know what's going on? Dale -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software ARPA: culdev1!drw@eddie.mit.edu UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!culdev1!drw Give me money or kill me! Exercise your childishness -- remember, we are all 10 in some base.