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From: tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: 2 questions
Message-ID: <+K%&_?$@rpi.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 21:01:30 GMT
References: <35@sporty.UUCP>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY
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In article <35@sporty.UUCP> root@sporty.UUCP (Super user) writes:

   1.  Can anybody tell me what the following messages mean:

           df: /usr/spool not block special
           expr: syntax error
           /usr/lib/news/sendbatch: test: argument expected

It means you're on a lame machine.  More specifically, your /usr/spool
is either not the root of a partition or if it is that your df
requires a /dev/PARTITION as an argument.  I suspect the latter.  The
other errors are probably coming from a variable not being set because
df tossed its cookies.

   2.	 When you get a notice for a news group and you are set up
           to manually create them, how do you do it without sending
           control messages throughout all of creation?

By using $NEWSBIN/maint/addgroup and ..../rmgroup.  It is useful to
have $NEWSBIN/maint in your news admin account PATH.
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