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From: boyce@daemen.uucp (DWB)
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Subject: Re: curious 2.10.3 efficiency situation
Message-ID: <193@daemen.uucp>
Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 15:15:42 EST
Article-I.D.: daemen.193
Posted: Sun Mar 16 15:15:42 1986
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Organization: Daemen College, Buffalo, NY
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Summary: Modify the source, why don't you.

In article <1951@saber.UUCP>, msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow) writes:
> >   I understand there is some way to ensure that only one istantiation of
> > UUXQT is executed at any one time.  Can someone elaborate on this for me?
> 
> UNNNNFortunately uuxqt ignores the lock file if it is more than a
> certain age.  The default age (in 4.2 BSD's uucp at least) is 60
> minutes.  This is far too short if you are receiving batched news,
> especially if you have unbatchnews niced.

If you have the source I'd suggest you fix it that way like we did.

In file "uucp.h" BSD of course.
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change X_LOCKTIME from 3600 to maybe 28800 (8 hours) or there abouts.

This would certainly remedy the problem for the next you're
bombarded with news.

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