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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice
Subject: Re: Difficulty installing news 2.11 with Eunice
Message-ID: <1010@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 19:27:32 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.1010
Posted: Sat Mar 28 19:27:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Mar-87 10:32:44 EST
References: <139@bnr-vpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <139@bnr-vpa.UUCP> bruce@bnr-vpa.UUCP writes:
>A neighbouring site is struggling to install news 2.11 on their
>Eunice system.  All programs have compiled.  The problem arises
>when a batch of news is received.  The batch is placed in the
>directory /usr/spool/news/.rnews, and is not unbatched.  SPOOLNEWS
>is not defined, so it should unbatch immediately.  When rnews -U is
>run (rnews -U -S was tried also), it seems to hang, and never exits.

It sounds like the news system is locked, and is never unlocked.
News batches only go in the .rnews subdirectory (it's actually +rnews
on Eunice because of filename conversion idiocy in Eunice) if news
thinks expire is running.  The idea is to keep expire and inews/rnews
from trying to modify "active" and "history" at the same time.

See if the file "active.lock" exists in /usr/lib/news.  If it does,
remove it, and then try rnews -U.  If this still doesn't work, send
me your localize.sh (address below).

>The patchlevel of the news is 0, I believe (none of the 5 patches
>have yet been applied), but I do not see in any of the patches a
>fix for the above problem.

Eunice news users should immediately install patch #1 or an rmgroup
control message may screw up your active file.
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