gaeta@pacs.picker.com (jay gaeta) (03/17/91)
I have set up Bnews 2.11 to "SPOOLNEWS" (Get the feed, unbatch files later). I am trying to figure out why my system gets so slow during unbatching. I have set up a crontab entry to run "rnews -U" approximately one hour after my system Polls for a feed. When I check to see how it is going (with ps), this is what I see: root 22529 77 0 08:13:00 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/rnews -U root 22530 22529 0 08:13:00 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/rnews -U root 24040 22530 36 10:19:15 ? 0:00 rnews -S -p 910313105657a0 root 24079 24040 8 10:22:42 ? 0:00 rnews -S -p 910313105657a0 I have no explanation as to why there are TWO "rnews -U" and TWO "rnews -S -p XXXXXXXXXXXXXX" running... It just does not look right. The documentation in this area is to say the least "sparse". I will look at the sources, but I can't help but feel that I am repeating the steps along a well traveled path, and that someone else has already figured it out... Jay Gaeta (216)-473-2441 Picker International, Inc. 595 Miner Rd, Highland Heights, OH 44143 (UUCP: ...!uunet!picker!gaeta) (Internet: gaeta@picker.com)