Xref: utzoo news.software.b:3254 unix-pc.general:3884 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.software.b,unix-pc.general Subject: Re: install problems with B news Message-ID: <1989Oct16.223148.6611@rpi.edu> Date: 16 Oct 89 22:31:48 GMT References: <932@becker.UUCP> <980@icus.islp.ny.us> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 37 In article <932@becker.UUCP> news@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes: Bruce> I'm running (for the moment) B news 2.11, patchlevel 14. Bruce> Bruce> For some reason, I've been getting the following message Bruce> several times in the news log right after expire has run - Bruce> Bruce> Cannot install : File exists Bruce> Bruce> where "..." is some news article pathname. In <980@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) said: Lenny> What probably happened is you got the article again, and it Lenny> found the same file name. The other thing might be is the Lenny> "seq" file is wrong. It really doesn't matter whether the article was the same one or not; the file names for an article is not determined by either the article or by the seq file. Normally it would be determined by the maximum number listed in the active file entry for the group in which the article gets filed. For example, this article will probably be filed in /usenet/spool/news/software/b/1472 on rpi.edu, with a symbolic link from /usenet/spool/unix-pc/general/1821, because of the following active file entries: news.software.b 0000001471 0000001151 y unix-pc.general 0000001820 0000001604 y It seems as though Bruce's expire run is not correctly updating the active file. Incidentally, the seq file is used by B News to get incremental, unique message-ids for postings on a machine. I should get around to munging C News to do that someday. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))