moline@trwrb.UUCP (Dan Molinelli) (04/28/87)
Lately i've been noticing zero length files owned by news in our /tmp.
Like:
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 0 Apr 28 11:09 /tmp/L<1831@trwrb.uucp>
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 0 Apr 28 11:11 /tmp/L<1832@trwrb.uucp>
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 0 Apr 28 11:12 /tmp/L<1833@trwrb.uucp>
Apparently, users were trying to post articles (with Pnews and postnews)
and when ../lib/news/log exceeded 1MB (we set a filesize limit of 1MB
for new users) they would receive an error message and terminate
without posting. but, these L* Files would be left around by inews.
(Probably a problem linking and writing the log file.)
(I've also noticed .in* files in /usr/spool/news .)
To get around this, we just truncate the log file sooner via cron.
Has anyone else experience this? And is there a fix?
We're running news 2.11 (patch 4) on a Pyramid 98X.
Thanks
Daniel Molinelli
TRW Electronics & Defense Sector
Financial and Data Services Division
UUCP: {sdcrdcf,decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!trwrb!moline