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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: strange news failures
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.172434.2721@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 17:24:34 GMT
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	I'm running C-news (14-Sep-1989) and NNTP 1.5.7 on a Vax-11/750
running MtXinu 4.3 BSD/NFS.  A few days ago, our news system started dying
for no apparant reason.  Each time it dies, I get a piece of mail sent to
usenet saying:

	thishost relaynews `bad/654904574' failed, status 138

(of course the file name was different, but it was always status 138).  A
dead /usr/lib/news/LOCK file would be left around, constipating everything
until I rememoved it.  This is no direct evidence that we are running out
of any critical system resource; I've got tons of free blocks and inodes on
my spool file system and I don't see any messages logged anywhere about
process, inode, file, etc, tables being full, so I'm at a loss to figure
out what's going on.

	Any body have any ideas?
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"