Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!attctc!digi!kcantrel From: kcantrel@digi.UUCP (Keith Cantrell) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help with rn/bnews on Apollos Message-ID: <207@digi.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 15:10:56 GMT References: <203@digi.UUCP> <1690@dover.sps.mot.com> Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx. Lines: 41 In-reply-to: chen@spanky.sps.mot.com's message of 16 Aug 89 23:28:36 GMT In article <1690@dover.sps.mot.com> chen@spanky.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) writes: Jinfu> In article <203@digi.UUCP> kcantrel@digi.UUCP (Keith Cantrell) writes: >I have run into a problem with running rn when rnews or rn is already running >on a different machine. The problem is the first one will open the file >"/usr/lib/news/active" for reading and therefore the Apollo operating system >will lock it. After this has happens, I am unable to get a second rn or rnews >to run on a different machine, the fopen complains "Text file busy". This >problem does not exist if both programs are running on the same machine. > >This was a major problem when I started up rn on my machine and rnews was >started up on a different machine and started loosing news since it could not >open the active file :-( > Jinfu> Jinfu> The version of rn in ADUS 1989 library already fixed this. It makes a private Jinfu> copy of active upon invoking. The drawback is that you will need to re-enter Jinfu> rn to see new articles being posted during your previous session of rn, this is Jinfu> really not a problem at all. Jinfu> Yea, this is the klugdy work around that I tried, but I found that you can not even create a private copy if the file is locked! In other words, I was unable to copy the file if rnews was running. Also, I am dead set against copying once a day or any such nonsense like that. I have been tempted to just "/com/ulkob -f" the file, but I am not sure how that will screw things up. So, does anybody else have any ideas????? Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Cantrell Phones: hm: 214-492-1088 Apollo Computer wk: 214-519-2399 @ DSC A Subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard USMAIL: EMAIL: 2100 Sonata Ln cantrell@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US Carrollton TX 75007 or ...!attctc!digi!kcantrel -----------------------------------------------------------------------