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From: dan@oresoft.com (Daniel Elbaum)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Uncompressed news discarded in C News
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.020620.6929@oresoft.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 02:06:20 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.205549.14138@idacom.uucp>
Organization: Oregon Software, Inc.
Lines: 29

In <1990Sep26.205549.14138@idacom.uucp> andrew@idacom.uucp (Andrew Scott) sez:

:One of our newsfeeds sends us uncompressed news...  Our problem is that these
:batches are tossed by C news into the in.coming/bad directory for no apparent
:reason.  If I compress them by hand and put them back into the in.coming
:directory, they are processed with no problems.

:Mail sent to news looks like:

:thishost relaynews `bad/654364346' failed, status 1005 (see errlog)

:Sometimes the status returned by relaynews is 1.

:The strange thing about this is that there is nothing in errlog to indicate
:what went wrong.  I can't see how relaynews could return a status of 1005
:either.

:We are running C news of 25-May-1990 on a Vax running 4.2BSD.  Has anybody
:else seen behavior like this?

We are running fully-patched (as of 7-Sep-90) cnews on an 11/750 running
Xinu 4.3 and are having just the same symptoms.  1005 is what we get, too,
(but sometimes 1) and it *does* seem like a very strange value.  Space
doesn't appear to be a problem.  Errlog usually is empty.  We don't
have a full feed, but we get roughly 200-300 "Dear news" letters a day.
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