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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: A clue to zero length articles - 2.10.2
Message-ID: <829@burl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 12:03:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.829
Posted: Mon Aug 26 12:03:25 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 01:54:15 EDT
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

Someone posted an article saying that they had suffered articles (files in
their news directory [/usr/spool/news, whatever]) that were zero-length
files.  I, too, have just experienced that problem for the first time;
two articles in net.wanted.sources were zero length.

My clue is:  I have been running 2.10.2 for a long time now, and have never
noticed this problem before.  Then again, my /usr/spool/news filesystem
never ran out of free disk space before, either -- until last night.
I believe that somewhere in the vastness of the 2.10.2 software the zero-length
articles are being created because the sending system cannot open a temp
file.  I haven't had time to poke through the source to verify this, but
if I find the time to do so before one of you does, I'll post anything I find.
-- 

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