thad@btr.btr.com (03/07/91)
I posted an "en passant" remark about a bunch of my postings to comp.sys.3b1
never making it out to the world. Last night, at dinner after a computer
meeting, Dave Herron (dherron@twg.com) commented in response to my question
the files could be found in /usr/spool/news/.rnews and that they were placed
there while expire is running (causing the "Your post is spooled for later
processing" messages when originally posted).
I checked, and, by golly, they ARE there!
Question: HOW to fire these up so they make it out to the world?
There are two types of files:
executable cunbatch scripts, and
executable inews scripts
If you have some clues or know how to do this, please send email ASAP either
to me or to cs@btr.com (I'm just a customer/user here at BTR and would relay
the info to ``cs'' anyway). BTR is running bnews on SunOS 4.0.* if that
makes any difference.
Many thanks!
Thad
P.S. For reference, here's a partial listing of the type of files about which
I'm talking about (my posts are the "small" files):
[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 295965 Feb 25 06:26 910225142660e3
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1389 Mar 1 02:04 91030110052553
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1403 Mar 1 02:19 91030110202583
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1741 Mar 1 02:29 910301103025a3
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 2395 Mar 1 02:42 910301104325c0
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1470 Mar 1 02:51 9103011052266a
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 255640 Mar 1 03:05 910301110531e3
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 2311 Mar 1 03:05 91030111062719
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1443 Mar 1 03:11 91030111122743
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 242874 Mar 1 03:16 910301111631eb
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 888 Mar 1 04:12 910301121327d3
[...]
and here's a "file *" of the same range of files:
[...]
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910225142660e3: executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030110052553: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030110202583: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301103025a3: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301104325c0: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/9103011052266a: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301110531e3: executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030111062719: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030111122743: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301111631eb: executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301121327d3: executable inews script
[...]
Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]