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From: sks@hcfeams.UUCP (Sam Spitzner)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Problem with inews.
Message-ID: <267@hcfeams.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 12:30:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: hcfeams.267
Posted: Tue Oct 21 12:30:56 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Oct-86 02:47:52 EDT
Organization: ARSB support, Illinois Bell, Chicago, IL
Lines: 17
Keywords: Won't update "active" file.

I recently installed news version B 2.11 beta 9/22/86.  I am being
flooded with messages in my "log" file concerning "Cannot write
file, already exists."

During investigation, I determined that there was an errorno of 17
that was being acted on.  The problem was traced to the active file
not being updated with articles posted on my machine.  It is not
affecting any downline sites, just mine.  I have traced the inews
module, and the fprintf on line 638 is returing a value of 15, which
indicates a correct write.

I am running on a DEC 8600 running SVR2.0.   The C compiler is
release 6.0.  Any ideas as to where to look?

Sam Spitzner
ihnp4!chinet!hcfeams!sks
(312) 727-5129