Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why can't I get Cnews to batch news?
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.152008.29832@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul26.110236.11520@resam.dk>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 90 15:20:08 GMT

In article <1990Jul26.110236.11520@resam.dk> andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) writes:
>I removed the /.../lib/news/input/newsrunning on/off from the cron-file
>so it always stays on and it seemed to work the first times I ran command
>/.../lib/news/input/newsrun - the news was batched but know newsrun returns
>immediately and nothing is batched - why?

Are you, by any chance, short of disk space?  Check your space against the
thresholds in spacefor.
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