barry@eriador.prime.com (12/21/89)
The comp.sys.mac news group on our Sun network is permanently locked -
the 'x' command tells me to "consult a guru". Our notes guru who
normally would deal with this problem is out until early January. His
assistant seems unable (unwilling?) to fix the problem since nothing
has been done to fix the problem in spite of several requests.
So, how does one clear the lock on a locked news group? Does this
require Superuser permissions?
Please reply by mail.
Thanks, Barry
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Barry Wolman | barry@s66.prime.com
Principal Technical Consultant | 500 Old Connecticut Path
Prime Computer | Framingham, MA 01701
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Nothing in this posting reflects an official position of Prime Computer.jsadler@misty.boeing.com (Jim Sadler) (12/24/89)
/ misty:news.software.notes / barry@eriador.prime.com / 5:15 pm Dec 20, 1989 / > > The comp.sys.mac news group on our Sun network is permanently locked - > the 'x' command tells me to "consult a guru". Our notes guru who I don't recognize the problem could you give more detail ? > > So, how does one clear the lock on a locked news group? Does this > require Superuser permissions? I'm not sure what you mean by locked. If you don't have permission to read/write the group, you might get something simular. If this is the case then you need to have director permissions for the notes file to fix it. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Barry Wolman | barry@s66.prime.com > Principal Technical Consultant | 500 Old Connecticut Path > Prime Computer | Framingham, MA 01701 > | 508/879-2960, ext. 4187 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jim sadler 206-234-9009 email uunet!bcstec!jsadler|root | hplabs!hpubvwa!b-mrda!jim
zimmerm@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Bruce A. Zimmerman) (12/28/89)
The lock files are kept in a directory called .locks which resides in the notes directory in most cases. Not in .utilities but in the same dir where al the topic dirs live. Rm the lock file for the problem topic and then visit the topic and see if it is now working. If not you may need to do some clean up work in the topic. Visit the index page of the topic and as user notes or as a director of the notesfile ener "d". This will take you to the directors page. Here you will see various state/configuration information about the notesfile. Toggle the "o" for on/off. If the topic was closed this will open it. All of this assumes that you have the permission do do some low level maint on these topics. AS a notefile administrator in the past I did not like people to "help" me as it often resulted in me restoring the topic directory from tape in order to fix their help. Sometimes when a notesfile is locked and seems to be stuck in a funny state I would close it and run a compression on it and that would fix it. Locks are created during compression runs which your site may be running automagicly. This lock file may have been created when one of these failed to complete properly. You can determine this by looking in the dir of the topic in question. If the compression was running there wil be extr files there which are temp files created in the compression run. -- Bruce Zimmerman, Motorola MCD, Urbana Design Center, Urbana, Il. 61801 zimmerm@urbana.mcd.mot.com, uiucuxc!udc!zimmerm 217 384 8500