Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews errlog
Message-ID: <1989Jun22.173415.10296@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jun20.160625.3647@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 17:34:15 GMT

In article <1989Jun20.160625.3647@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>I got lots of email regarding the mysterious "unknown option -z"
>that keeps cropping up in my errlog.  Well, I looked at viauux,
>and it DOES NOT use the -z flag.  I've grep'ed, vi'ed, and less'ed
>through several files, and cannot find any reference to the -z
>flag anywhere.

You might want to check and see whether you are using the default command
(not a batch file, not an explicit command) on any entries in your sys
file.  The default command does give -z to uux.  (This is documented.)

>I've got a new one for you guys... now, I am getting
>
>expire problem
>e

Sounds ugly; the "expire problem" part is from doexpire, but "e" is kind
of mysterious.  Sounds like a truncated message; some sort of disk space
problem?  Or expire dumping core for some bizarre reason?
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