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From: news@ideal.id.dk (Nick Sandru (news adm))
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews locking -- stale ones
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.111359.15902@ideal.id.dk>
Date: 22 Apr 91 11:13:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.154804.15684@zoo.toronto.edu> <Q7F3W5C@taronga.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science
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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.
>-- 
>               (peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com)
>   `-_-'
>    'U`

I made a script which cleans locks older than a preset interval (12 - 24 hours)
and old articles which may have been left out by an aborted expire.
It worked fine during the last 5 - 6 months

Long Haired Nick


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