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From: wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: trn refuses to use threads
Keywords: trn threads
Message-ID: <378@stephsf.stephsf.com>
Date: 6 Oct 90 21:40:51 GMT
References: <7340@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Stephen Software Systems, Inc., Tacoma WA
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In article <7340@darkstar.ucsc.edu> aryeh@cash.uucp (the over worked C something or another) writes:
>I can run mthreads but when I hit '+' I get the same thing as '='.  It seems to
>be doing something it is since it does go much slower then '='.  Does any have 
>any ideas on the problem.
>-- 
>Aryeh Friedman 				aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu or

  I had/have problems with this when the group name + db extension is
  longer than 14 chars.   I also had some problems with permissions
  on the thread files because some of my first tests with mthreads
  were run while I was su'ed to root.  Check your thread
  files and make sure that they are owned by news and are publicly
  readable.

  The extension 'problem' can be reduced if you change the suffix
  to something smaller.  I'm now using a suffix of '.'  :-)

  I'm curious about the db naming method that nn uses?  Does nn
  even suffer from this problem?

  Try reading the mthreads man page for the error conditions that
  mthreads reports.  Also, remember to run mthreads with the -e option
  after news is expired.  If you don't then trn can exibit some strange
  behavior after a couple of months.

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