Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Bad batches in Cnews
Message-ID: <1991May16.154238.29029@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 15:42:38 GMT
References: <1991May15.200740.8051@wri.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May15.200740.8051@wri.com> ben@dragonfly.wri.com (Ben Cox) writes:
>I keep getting bad batches in Cnews which, when re-run (mv
>/usr/spool/news/in.coming/bad/* /usr/spool/news/in.coming) usually run just
>fine.  "errlog" is always empty.

As I think we mention somewhere -- if we don't, we should -- rerunning batches
tells you very little, because if something was wrong with specific articles,
they will be processed the first time and rejected as duplicates thereafter.
Duplicate rejection is done very early, so other problems would not be seen.

How old is your C News?  Modern ones are generally fairly careful about
errlog, but some old ones didn't flush stdio buffers in some situations.
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