ladm@kitc.UUCP (John Burgess - Local tools ADM) (08/22/85)
We're running 2.10.2 news, and recently I've notices lots
of article files with NOTHING IN THEM. That's right, 0 byte files!
I recently installed the 'move Orphaned Responses articles to junk'
patch to rnews. I suspect that this is the culprit?
Has anyone else seen this problem?
Got a fix for it?
If not, how about some tips on what might be going wrong,
and where I should look to fix it.
Thanks,
John Burgess
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(201) 561-7100 x2481 (8-259-2481)greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel) (08/26/85)
In article <170@kitc.UUCP> ladm@kitc.UUCP (John Burgess) writes: >We're running 2.10.2 news, and recently I've notices lots >of article files with NOTHING IN THEM. That's right, 0 byte files! > ... >Got a fix for it? I have seen it several times. It is usually due to running out of space on your news filesystem. It's apparently a condition that's not detected -- although I'm not sure what could be done to recover, it would be nice to try and detect such things and not leave garbage that confuses news readers and expire. -- -- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA
brad@gcc-bill.ARPA (Brad Parker) (08/30/85)
In article <270@ncr-sd.UUCP> greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel) writes: >In article <170@kitc.UUCP> ladm@kitc.UUCP (John Burgess) writes: >>We're running 2.10.2 news, and recently I've notices lots >>of article files with NOTHING IN THEM. That's right, 0 byte files! >>Got a fix for it? > >I have seen it several times. It is usually due to running out of >space on your news filesystem. It's apparently a condition that's >not detected... - Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo YES! This just happened to us (spool fs was full). WORSE - the history file in /usr/lib/news seems to get corrupted (or just plain wrong) when this happens, so expire doesn't expire things correctly! After a week of running 98% full and selectively deleting news we don't read, I finally started looking around and did an "expire -r" which ran 2 hours. The next morning, after expire ran normally, we were only at 75% full, our normal situation. -- J Bradford Parker uucp: seismo!harvard!gcc-bill!brad "She said you know how to spell AUDACIOUSLY? I could tell I was in love... You want to go to heaven? or would you rather not be saved?" - Lloyd Coal