john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) (11/10/86)
It would appear that the current reorganization may have brought up another flaw in the 'rmgroup' script. A few weeks ago, the removal of talk.religion brought out a flaw in the pre-2.11 rmgroup script. Not only was talk.religion removed, but so were the spool driectories for talk.religion.misc, etc. The fix basically consisted of changing an 'rm -rf' of the newsgroup's spool directory to an 'rm *' followed by an 'rmdir' of the directory. Today I ran the latest checkgroups message, however, and got hit with the opposite problem. In essence, I was removing net.astro and net.astro.expert in that order. When rmgroup got to net.astro, it removed all the net.astro files, but couldn't remove /usr/spool/news/net/astro since it was a non-empty directory. Next it went to remove net.astro.expert which went fine. The only problem is that now I have an "orphaned" /usr/spool/net/astro directory. Conceivably, this will also be a problem when we eventually go to remove 'net'. At the moment, I don't have a good suggestion for a fix. I did want to point this out for the benefit of those with small filesystems, etc. -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 571-3557 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john This isn't a coronation- this is bad comedy. -Galvatron