Autzoo.1610
hacknews
utzoo!henry
Thu Apr 29 16:49:32 1982
shutting news off
There was a problem yesterday which has happened a couple of times in
the past:  we suddenly got a flood of news traffic, and the news program
ran long enough to interfere with morning users.  (In fact, yesterday it
interfered all day, because we got a week's backlog of news.)  This
should not happen in the future, since the autodialing modem now handles
this every day in the wee small hours, but just in case it does, here is
how to shut things off to let the users get some work done:

1. Make sure there really is a problem.  News can run for a few minutes
	during the day for a variety of ordinary reasons;  don't take
	action unless it has been running for some time.

2. Do a "ps a".  You should see a process named "UUXQT".

3. Kill that process and only that process.

4. The other processes involved will take a few minutes to finish up and
	die a natural death.  Don't kill them.