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From: news@heitis1.uucp (News Administrator)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: relaynews x-posting problem solved.
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.174829.9417@heitis1.uucp>
Date: 16 Apr 91 17:48:29 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.121017.4804@tygra.UUCP>
Organization: Harmon Electronics, Inc
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In article <1991Apr12.121017.4804@tygra.UUCP> jp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:
>Solved the crossposting problem that I was having.
>
>Problem: I had to make a separate filesystem out of /usr/spool/news/comp
>as I was running out of INODES for news. Xenix only allows ~65k INODES
>per filesystem. The problem occurred when an article came in that was
>crossposted to comp.* and some other hierarchy. Relaynews creates the 
>
>Solution: Hack the files fileart.c and relaynews.c to do the following:
>In the main pgm, create an empty file called "/tmp/rncpcmds". Then, 
>change the function mkonelink (which files an article by either creating
>the file for it, or creating a link to a file which already exists) to
>call the function "copyart" if the link fails. 
>

Problem: Suppose the file is cross-posted to:
comp.sources.d,alt.sources,alt.aquaria,soc.womyn, etc....

It will create 4 copies of the article in this case.  I had patches which
took care of this at one point, not because of Inodes, instead disk space
(4 40Meg HD's).  What I did, was attempt to make a link, if it failed, I
did a copy, and then on subsequent links tried both names.  This continued
until all cross-postings had been either, linked, or copied, or linked to
copies, etc, ad-infinitum.  I will see if I can find the patches and send
them, and if anyone else is interested, I can also post'em.

	brian