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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: ../bad/files
Message-ID: <1990Aug09.092440.6605@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 09:24:40 GMT
References: <1990Aug6.040756.9115@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
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In article <1990Aug6.040756.9115@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>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,

Yes.

>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?

You should make some room in the filesystem first, yes you can simply move
the files from in.coming/bad up into in.coming and fire off newsrun.  Expire
rebuilds the history database, the explist file controls expiry of your various
newsgroups.  It's up to you to tweak it according to your needs.  doexpire
should be run nightly via cron.

>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/.

What do you mean by "bad" ?  bad batches are received batches which newsrun
(relaynews) rejects, they are moved from in.coming to in.coming/bad.  Articles
destined for non-existent newsgroups (not in active) wind up in the newsgroup
junk, I'd call that a "bad" newsgroup.
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