Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: More about C News and barfing.
Message-ID: <1291@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 8 Feb 91 00:12:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.023059.3082@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991Feb7.023059.3082@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michael Richardson) writes:

>  Recently I read something here to the effect that a (new) C news
>site was producing a large number of barfs on a adjacent B news site?
>  Henry responded to the effect that this can't be as C news as bashed
>quite extensively against B news.

>  Well, one of my downfeeds seems to have the same problem -- to
>quote:

I'm also one of your downfeeds, and I'm running B 2.11.19, without any
problems whatsoever.

>>From: revcan!dave (David Blackwood)
>>Subject: Bad news batches

>>We seem to be getting a significant number of bad news batches which cannot be
>>uncompressed.  This is causing us a major problem as the SCO news software
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>>hangs on a bad batch but continues to write the last log entry over and over
>>until the file system fills completely at which time the system is effectively
>>dead.  Any ideas, suggestions?

I think the underlined phrase is the likely cause.  Anybody know what version
or patchlevel or how hacked a version of news "SCO news" is?

If SCO news appears to be a B 2.11, you might want to try again with a
prolog of "#! rnews" and do the uux to rnews, not cunbatch.  (cunbatch
became unecessary in 2.10.3 -> 2.11, and is all done within C without
going thru the unbatcher).  You could probably figger out what kind of
news SCO's is, including the patch level, by sending a "sendversion" to it.
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