Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: strange news failures
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.160854.25063@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Oct4.172434.2721@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 90 16:08:54 GMT

In article <1990Oct4.172434.2721@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>	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...

The fact that the lock is being left around means that relaynews is going
down in flames, as opposed to terminating deliberately because it didn't
like something you did.  I would look for *some* sort of resource shortage
as the cause.  (Do you have disk quotas, by any chance?)
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