Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!educ-isis!law From: law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Max article number reached? Keywords: cnews Message-ID: <1991Apr26.162941.2402@ioe.lon.ac.uk> Date: 26 Apr 91 16:29:41 GMT References: <1991Apr25.122242.1179@ioe.lon.ac.uk> Organization: Institute of Education, University of London Lines: 18 OK - fixed now. You have to manually edit the article numbers in /usr/lib/news/active (having first run /usr/lib/newsbin/maint/locknews) and make them large enough fields (add a few zeros on the front, better still zero altogether if no articles present - ie. 000000000 00000000 y Thanks to Jerry Aguirre of Olivetti ATC, USA and Icarus Sparry of Bath University, UK. :-) Lindsay -- JANET: law@uk.ac.lon.ioe | Lindsay Wakeman EARN/BITNET: law%ioe.lon.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet | Institute of Education INTERNET:law%ioe.lon.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 20 Bedford Way London WC1H OAL UUCP: !mcvax!ukc!educ-isis!law | VOICE +44 71 636 1500 ext.512