david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) (02/19/88)
I gooofed
I did something that deleted the Path: line from a bunch of articles
and since we're now a backbone site these articles'll probably get
wide distribution.
I've been working on some problem which has come up within the last
week where news batches which have been arriving from psuvm.bitnet
were, when unbatched, leaving blank lines before the beginning of
the header. This made news think there was no header and it dumped
the article in /usr/spool/news. (By the way -- Rick -- it would be
MUCH better if the articles were dumped into something like ".bad"
instead of in the main directory, it would be MUCH easier to have
a find run on just the bad articles -- this is important when you
have many thousands of files in the same directory and more 88* tells
you that the arguments are too long... you say instead:
find .bad -type f -exec more {} \;
but, you see, I couldn't do that ...)
Anyway, part of my recovery procedure is a shell script which deletes
the first line and copies the article to .rnews and then deletes it.
Apparently this procedure got a little overzealous and deleted one
line too many. The news system created new Path: lines -- really, the
only problem this will cause is possibly a little extra news transmissions.
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