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From: sboyle@mentorg.com (Sean Boyle x1542)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Rn locks active file on Apollos
Keywords: postnews, active locked
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.001009.497@mentorg.com>
Date: 2 Feb 91 00:10:09 GMT
References: <168@numenor.gtephx.UUCP>
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In article <168@numenor.gtephx.UUCP> yountm@gtephx.UUCP (Marvin Yount) writes:
>I'm trying to get Rn set up on our Apollo site.  I've got it running
>pretty well (up to patch 45), but we have noticed a situation regarding
>the locking of the active file.  When someone is running Rn, other people
>can use Rn or readnews to read, but Rn is locking everyone out of posting
>news (at least via postnews).  Our news system is Bnews 2.11, recently
>rebuilt under SR10.2 and sys5).  Has anyone else run into this active file
>locking situation and know of a solution to it?

What we did here was modify rn to look at active.copy and on the node
connected to the filesystem containing the active file copies the 
active file over the top of active.copy every 15 minutes or so...
This seems to work fairly well.
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