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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: ../bad/files
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.040756.9115@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 6 Aug 90 04:07:56 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
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Am I correct that *any* kind of error encountered during the processing of
incoming news will cause the deposition of the incoming batch file into
../bad?  I have a number of files in my bad directory that, on the face of it,
don't appear bad in any way.  Some of the lines in my error log are as follows:


relaynews: error writing `/usr/local/lib/news/Cnews/ctl/history', probably the disk filled (File too large)
relaynews: article <1990Aug1.094324.3392@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> short by 1227 bytes
relaynews: error closing history file

Now, i can see that the short article would cause the deposition, but what can
i do about the history file being too large (disk filled)?  Can i simply move
the batches in bad back in to the in.coming directory and rerun newsrun?

Do "bad" newsgroups cause files to be deposited in bad?  I always have *some*
bad newsgroups and thus it seems that i always have several thousand blocks
worth of bad files in bad/.

derek
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Derek Terveer						det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG
Minnesota Field Hockey Association,  North Central Section
University of Minnesota Women's Lacrosse,  Midwest District