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From: brad@gcc-bill.ARPA (Brad Parker)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Zero length articles
Message-ID: <294@gcc-bill.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 12:16:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: gcc-bill.294
Posted: Fri Aug 30 12:16:18 1985
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Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (Home of the HyperDrive)
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In article <270@ncr-sd.UUCP> greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel) writes:
>In article <170@kitc.UUCP> ladm@kitc.UUCP (John Burgess) writes:
>>We're running 2.10.2 news, and recently I've notices lots
>>of article files with NOTHING IN THEM.  That's right, 0 byte files!
>>Got a fix for it?
>
>I have seen it several times.  It is usually due to running out of
>space on your news filesystem.  It's apparently a condition that's
>not detected... - Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo

YES! This just happened to us (spool fs was full).
WORSE - the history file in /usr/lib/news seems to get corrupted
(or just plain wrong) when this happens, so expire doesn't expire things
correctly! After a week of running 98% full and selectively deleting news
we don't read, I finally started looking around and did an "expire -r"
which ran 2 hours. The next morning, after expire ran normally,
we were only at 75% full, our normal situation.

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J Bradford Parker
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