Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: Losing Map entries
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.054042.8909@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 05:40:42 GMT
References: <807@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc
Keywords: Maps

In article <807@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM> smitty@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM (Hibbard T. Smith JR) writes:
>The news software builds a batch file of incoming uucp map article file names.
>When getmap runs (3 times a week), quite often I get errors from getmap 
>claiming that it can't open some article files.  When I look, sure enough,
>no such article exists. Usually these articles are sandwiched by sequential
>neighbors who get processed just fine.  It would seem that these articles 
>vanish in the 1 or 2 days from their arrival to the getmap run's trying to
>get them.

Probably means that an article came along later that "Supercedes:" it.
Which means, the map originators reissued the map in just a few days and
the first copy gets cancelled.  I've noticed this happening with my
unpackmaps script.

Which did strike me as a little wierd.  I was under the impression that
the maps were only going to be published once per month, but over the
few days that maps are coming in, unpackmaps typically finds 3-4 files
have already disappeared.  Often one or two a night (I run unpackmaps
once a day)

This is with both Cnews and Bnews.

>No mention in the news errlog or log files of anything in connection
>with the missing articles.  Since the article numbers appear in the batch file
>which is built by inews when he's unpacking and filing the articles, I have
>to assume they were there in the first place.  Boy, am I confused ;-) .

Take a look in the history file and see if you can identify it.
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