Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: Cnews locking -- stale ones Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 05:22:45 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG References: <1991Apr19.154804.15684@zoo.toronto.edu> Lines: 18 In news.software.b, article , peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: < < 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. If that network file system connection isn't reliable enough, it seems that there's a danger of something breaking in a bad way, i.e. when partially updating a file (history,active,whatever). In this case you should probably use some other way to distribute the processing, i.e. using NNTP for posting articles or assembling UUCP batches on the server and passing them out with rsh, or whatever you're doing (you didn't say). -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49-721-621127(0700-2330) \o)/