root@dynasys.UUCP (Super user) (08/31/89)
I recently posted an article about my rn program doing bizarre things. The
program would start and start giving the message: "Warning! Somebody has
reset [newsgroup]. Assuming nothing read." I got several responses saying
that the numbers in the .newsrc file were not in line with those in the
active file. So I checked that out. Not so.
Many of the newsgroups I had errors on had no articles mentioned in
either file and in fact some of them had NEVER had news in them. EVER. So,
needless to say I'm pretty confused
The only thing I can think of is that the expire program is doing
strange things some where along the line, because this seems to occur after
an expire is done. I have it set up in crontabs as:
15 23 * * * /bin/su news -c "/usr/lib/news/expire -e 4 -E 14 -I" > /dev/null
I don't see how this could produce the message.
I'm running netnews that SCO provides and I've heard its quirky. Any help
would be appreciated.
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Jesse W. Asher
Dynasys (901) 382-1705
6196-1 Macon Rd., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38134
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