bruce@bnr-vpa.UUCP (03/26/87)
A neighbouring site is struggling to install news 2.11 on their
Eunice system. All programs have compiled. The problem arises
when a batch of news is received. The batch is placed in the
directory /usr/spool/news/.rnews, and is not unbatched. SPOOLNEWS
is not defined, so it should unbatch immediately. When rnews -U is
run (rnews -U -S was tried also), it seems to hang, and never exits.
The patchlevel of the news is 0, I believe (none of the 5 patches
have yet been applied), but I do not see in any of the patches a
fix for the above problem.
Has anyone else encountered this problem, or can give us any clue
as to what to look for? Any help would be much appreciated. This
site has never had news running before, so it's all new to them.
regards,
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P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Y 4H7jbuck@epimass.UUCP (03/29/87)
In article <139@bnr-vpa.UUCP> bruce@bnr-vpa.UUCP writes: >A neighbouring site is struggling to install news 2.11 on their >Eunice system. All programs have compiled. The problem arises >when a batch of news is received. The batch is placed in the >directory /usr/spool/news/.rnews, and is not unbatched. SPOOLNEWS >is not defined, so it should unbatch immediately. When rnews -U is >run (rnews -U -S was tried also), it seems to hang, and never exits. It sounds like the news system is locked, and is never unlocked. News batches only go in the .rnews subdirectory (it's actually +rnews on Eunice because of filename conversion idiocy in Eunice) if news thinks expire is running. The idea is to keep expire and inews/rnews from trying to modify "active" and "history" at the same time. See if the file "active.lock" exists in /usr/lib/news. If it does, remove it, and then try rnews -U. If this still doesn't work, send me your localize.sh (address below). >The patchlevel of the news is 0, I believe (none of the 5 patches >have yet been applied), but I do not see in any of the patches a >fix for the above problem. Eunice news users should immediately install patch #1 or an rmgroup control message may screw up your active file. -- - Joe Buck {hplabs,ihnp4,sun,ames}!oliveb!epimass!jbuck seismo!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck {pesnta,tymix,apple}!epimass!jbuck Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California