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From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C news problem:  spacefor script
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.153527.10070@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 15:35:27 GMT
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This one problem is preventing us from being a fully functional C news site.
Any immediate help will be much appreciated.

We are running C news on an Encore Multimax running UMAX 4.3 (release 4.0).

Some times, but not all the time, when uuxqt runs rnews on an incoming batch,
the script "spacefor" as invoked by rnews does not write anything to
standard output.  As a result, the check for free space fails and the
batch is (eventually) dropped.  Once spacefor starts doing this, it continues
to happen until I modify rnews or otherwise interfere with the goings on.

I have added some amount of debugging to rnews (thus the modifications)
but I then ususally have to wait an hour or so before the problems recurs.
I have not been saving standard error, so I don't know if there are any
error messages associated with the invocation.

I have not been able to get spacefor to fail by invoking it myself.  I
have not been able to get things to fail by invoking uuxqt by hand.

Has anyone seen this?  Can anyone lend some advice?

		William LeFebvre
		Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>