Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!resam!andrew From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Why can't I get Cnews to batch news? Message-ID: <1990Jul27.141618.5930@resam.dk> Date: 27 Jul 90 14:16:18 GMT References: <1990Jul26.110236.11520@resam.dk> Organization: RESAM Project Office, SAS, CPHML-V Lines: 22 In <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? I'll answer the question myself! Cnews calculated that there wasn't enough space to unpack news so it instead waited until there was more space or removed it leaving a mail to postmaster informing him/her that there wasn't space for the news! That's Cnews - wau! Leif Andrew Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Stroedamvej 50, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark UUCP: andrew@ambra.dk, phone: +45 39 27 11 77 / Currently at Scandinavian Airline Systems =======/ UUCP: andrew@resam.dk, phone: +45 32 32 22 79 \ SAS, RESAM Project Office, CPHML-V, P.O.BOX 150, DK-2770 Kastrup, Denmark > > Read oe as: o / (slash) and OE as O / (slash) < <