Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews batchlog ???
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.160749.24212@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Oct2.173839@hobbes.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 16:07:49 GMT

In article <1990Oct2.173839@hobbes.Viewlogic.COM> tom@hobbes.Viewlogic.COM (Thomas Yen) writes:
>samsung.com     backlog 24781 (disk too full for batching)
>m2c.m2c.org     backlog 24771 (disk too full for batching)
>
>	What is this means ?

It means you've got very large backlogs of news waiting to be sent to
those sites, because "spacefor" thinks your disk is too full for it to
be safe to prepare batches for them.  You need to either free up some
space or reduce the thresholds in spacefor.

>	Also I noticed the active file keep changing and once a while
>	a new newsgroup added. Is this a big security hole or feature ?

This is normal.  It sounds like you're not very familiar with the way
news works; we recommend the Nutshell Handbook:

	"Managing UUCP and Usenet", by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino,
	O'Reilly & Associates, 1989, ISBN 0-937175-48-X.  This latest
	edition covers C News as well as B News.  It's not perfect but
	it's lots better than nothing.  Inquiries to nuts@ora.com or
	uunet!ora!nuts.

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