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From: cedric@tfpbbs.uucp (Cedric Ingrand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: cnews/wnews/rn
Message-ID: <91062512966@tfpbbs.uucp>
Date: 25 Jun 91 14:51:50 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.020348.20525@skypod.guild.org>
Organization: The Floating Point BBS, Paris.
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marc@skypod.guild.org (Marc Fournier) writes:
> Hi Folks...
> 
> 	We just got ahold of Coherent 3.2 from MWC.  We got
> a feed working perfectly for mail, but I want to extend it to
> news also.  I logged onto piggy.ucsb.edu and tried to transfer
> cnews.tar.Z and wnews.tar.Z but as soon as I got it onto my
> computer, and uncompressed it and tried to untar it, it screwed
> up.  The uncompressing worked no problem, but as soon as I untared
> it, it really screwed up the file system.  All the files contained
> the same thing and seemed to be links to the directory.  I don't
> know what happened, since I've used tar many times before hand.
[..stuff deleted..]

	I don't know about Cnews, but the copy of wnews available
from piggy has to be untarred using ustar (a standard tar utility
included in the Coherent package, at least in version 3.1.0). The
syntax remains the same (ustar xvf wnews.tar). To fix the filesystem
problem, login as root and run fsck. It should report an error such
as : "I-node XXXXX is a multiply referenced i-node", or something of
the sort. All you have to do then is to clear the i-node using
clri. It worked for me...

		Cedric


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