dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) (05/22/89)
I had to stop uux due to too many processes. I noticed that .rnews has a few megabytes of files in it's directory. How do I start news back up to take care of it? And what exactly is .rnews used for?
andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) (05/23/89)
From article <199620@hrc.UUCP>, by dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel): > > I had to stop uux due to too many processes. I noticed that .rnews has > a few megabytes of files in it's directory. How do I start > news back up to take care of it? And what exactly is .rnews used for? /usr/spool/news/.rnews is a directory which holds batched articles when they have been received from your feed host, if your news s/w has been built with the SPOOLNEWS option defined. Periodic execution of /usr/lib/news/inews -u should unbatch these files into the correct newsgroups and delete the batch files afterwards. Therefore .rnews should be empty after an inews -u run. -- Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, ENGLAND JANET: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: andy%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac Voice: +44 273 606755 ext.2129
karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (05/25/89)
andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
/usr/spool/news/.rnews is a directory which holds batched articles when
they have been received from your feed host, if your news s/w has been
built with the SPOOLNEWS option defined.
Also, when expire(8) is running and has locked the active file,
incoming news batches are dropped in /usr/spool/news/.rnews as a
holding area until expire completes.
Periodic execution of
/usr/lib/news/inews -u should unbatch these files into the correct
newsgroups and delete the batch files afterwards.
`inews' knows no option -u. It is instead -U and must be used when
invoked as `rnews.' This is the Unspool mode; it should be run
periodically by itself via cron, and is also how expire(8) completes
its work: After the actual expiration is complete, expire exec's
"rnews -U" directly, to flush the .rnews area.
--Karl
jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (05/25/89)
In article <1019@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes: >/usr/spool/news/.rnews is a directory which holds batched articles when >they have been received from your feed host, if your news s/w has been >built with the SPOOLNEWS option defined. It also holds incoming batches while expire is running, whether or not SPOOLNEWS is defined. expire fires of an "rnews -U" command at the end to unspool everything. -- -- Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.epi.com, uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck