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From: gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: inbound is garbled in c news
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.083211.8459@proa.sv.dg.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 08:32:11 GMT
References: <9101162052.AA18367@decpa.pa.dec.com>
Organization: Data General SDD, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <9101162052.AA18367@decpa.pa.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes:
>Can you please tell me which B News file that contains "Inbound News is
>garbled"?

Ths message comes from inews during uucp unbatching.  You should look in
/usr/spool/news/.bad for the garbled batch files.  Dollars to donuts they
will be zero length.  This can happen if you are trying to post incoming news
batches while expire is running.  Either arrange that they do not run at
the same time or examine the locking being done between expire and inews and
fix it so that inews can really detect when expire is running and will
correctly either spool them or go away.   The first option is probably
the quickest to implement and should be done asap.
-- 
Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California
gary@sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad!gary
C++ - it's the right thing to do.