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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Cnews locking -- stale ones
Message-ID: <Q7F3W5C@taronga.hackercorp.com>
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References: <1991Apr19.154804.15684@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 00:01:09 GMT

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> They need to investigate *why* they are getting stale locks.  C News does
> not do that.  Something is wrong.

We get stale locks when the network file system loses a connection to the
news host machine. I'm not sure what we can do about it other than have
a human to occasionally give an enema to the news system. Suggestions
would be appreciated.
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