Gustaf Neumann <NEUMANN@AWIWUW11.bitnet> (02/23/90)
Linda, many thanks for the quick correction of my last problem. Here comes a new one, which looks a little harder: Today, i did a PURGE on our server (it was not the first time). During the PURGE, an operation exception occured, and then - oh shock - our NETNEWS GROUPS file was deleted (800 lines). Has anybody seen this before? If anybody is interested, i have written two execs, that try very hard to reconstruct a NETNEWS GROUPS file out of NETNEWS DESCRIPT and the VLIB and GROUP files. They run forever, but i think, i have repaired everything by now. -gustaf Here is the 'interesting' part of the console log: ------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:49:10 Waiting for interrupt . . . purge 18:49:14 PURGE initiated by NETNEWS AWIWUW11 NETNEWS: PURGE initiated NETNEWS: Nothing queued in LOCAL batch. NETNEWS: Nothing queued in BLEKUL11 batch. NETNEWS: Nothing queued in NESTROY batch. 18:49:14 Sending batch TREARN to NETNEWS at TREARN NETNEWS BATCH A1. Bytes in= 38539, bytes out= 21440 ( 55%). PUN FILE 6618 TO RSCS2 COPY 001 NOHOLD NETNEWS: Batch TREARN sent to TREARN 18:49:17 NNPURGE: Drop date = 90039 18:49:17 NNPURGE: Expire date = 90053 18:49:21 NNPURGE: Processing NETNEWS GROUPS file DMSITP143T Operation exception occurred at 07769C in system routine EXECCOMM; re Automatic re-IPL by CP due to disabled wait; PSW 00020000 40F18C88 VM/SP REL 5 02/13/90 12:15 .. 18:49:57 NETNEWS Version 2.0, The Pennsylvania State University 18:49:57 NNSERVER EXEC K1 dated 900123 205342 called as NNSERVER from CMS .. 18:49:58 Disk A is 191 18:49:59 Disk B is 192 18:49:59 Disk C is 100 18:49:59 Disk D is 101 18:49:59 Disk E is 102 18:49:59 Disk J is 1FF 18:49:59 Disk K is 193 18:49:59 Reading NETNEWS GROUPS file . . . 18:50:03 Sorting NETNEWS MSGIDS . . . DMSSRT604R Enter sort fields: 19:01:13 Initialization complete 19:01:13 Spoolid 7129 from CHRISTIA AT FINHUTC; 29 records. 19:01:14 **COMMENT** Spool file 7129 rejected: Listserv group bit.listserv.chris tia does not exist.