Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews wish
Message-ID: <1989Sep14.161548.26094@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1401@esquire.UUCP> <1989Sep12.230820.2296@utzoo.uucp> <1403@esquire.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 16:15:48 GMT

In article <1403@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>One thing I'm not clear on: using your suggested
>fix, does inews make room for itself as it goes
>along, or do I still have to guess how much
>room to leave for tonight's feed?

No, you don't have to guess.  The (shell) program that works through spooled
input checks disk space before proceeding.  It's pretty simple to have it run
an expire if space is inadequate.  We don't do it that way ourselves, but a
first-cut version should be a one-line change.
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