Amit-vax.110
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!houxi!ihnss!eagle!mit-vax!mp
Tue Feb 16 21:14:24 1982
netnews clogging up the uucp directory
When for one reason or another (e.g. dead ACUs, dearth of dialups,
or machine downtime) some system becomes inaccessible for more than
a day, the uucp directory of the system forwarding netnews to it
becomes hopelessly clogged with stuff; last week, eagle had over
1024 files in /usr/spool/uucp (/bin/ls wouldn't even list them all).
This, of course, is not a way to make friends with the system
administrators.

Doing a little thinking, I came up with 2 ways to help the situation:
(1) Have the netnews placed in some sort of archive, and then send out
this one file once or twice a day.
(2) Have uucp use a different spool directory for each system it
communicates with.

Neither of these can be done immediately, so far as I can see; one
quick solution which has been implemented is to delete the offending system
from the forwarding system's sys file (this works amazingly well...).
Does anyone have any other brilliant ideas?

	Mark Plotnick, MIT (eagle!mit-vax!mp or ucbvax!MP@MC)