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From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Urgent help needed with "stuck" bnews spooled postings
Message-ID: <2079@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 91 04:49:22 GMT
References: <2026@public.BTR.COM> <1991Mar08.200236.10786@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, Mountain View CA
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In article <1991Mar08.200236.10786@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
>[...]
>In bnews, to unstick news, run "rnews -U".  It's a good idea to place
>an "rnews -U" into your crontab to be run a couple of times per day.
>Especially an hour or so after your cron fires up expire.
>[...]

Many, MANY thanks to Chris and to everyone else who responded with solutions
for the "stuck" bnews spooled files.

The management at BTR has implemented your solutions and everything is working
fine here presently.

I am personally thanking everyone who sent email help.

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]