[comp.unix.ultrix] C news meets Ultrix

doug@sis.uucp (doug berry) (08/24/90)

      i have two problems, has anyone else seen them?

1)  Although spacefor is temporarily kludged to do 
    echo 10000 ; exit 0  i am still getting this on the 
    _occasional_ incoming batch...

      incoming news discarded due to space shortage
      uuxqt cmd (rnews ) status (signal 0, exit 1)

    youch! i have plenty of disk and inodes free,
    and the kernel has    "maxuprc  50"  set. 

2)  This is another _occasional_ one, a slew of incoming
    batches go to bad, i get mail telling me to check errlog,
    but there's no comment there.  On moving the batches back
    up to incoming, and doing a newsrun as user news, the batches
    unpack fine and life goes on.

      If you can help, *thanks*. 
      Responses via mail please (if you can...)
      i'll post a summary to news.software.b.
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doug@sis.uucp (doug berry) (09/12/90)

to which, in article <1990Aug25.172450.29894@sti.fi>
ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) replied 

% I had this and all kinds of problems with cnews until I switched from
% sh to sh5. Try it, you'll like it. Not a lot, but you'll like it. :)

Thanks Timo!

C news has been running fine on Ultrix 3.1 (vax) since i changed 
#! /bin/sh
 to 
#! /bin/sh5
in all of the scripts.

I hope this posting saves other Ultrician's ;-) from some grief.
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