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From: mojo@micropro.UUCP (Morris Jones)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: My problems with Patch 5
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Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 17:24:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 17:24:17 1987
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I've applied patch 5 to news 2.11, including the rejected inews patch
by hand.  My system is basically V7 (Unisoft + Pixel) with the DBM
library.  No flock().  SPOOLNEWS on.  Here are a couple problems 
I've noticed that didn't seem to be there before.

In SPOOLDIR there is a collection of .in$$ and .ar$$ files that haven't
gone away.  Upon inspection, they all appear to be locally originated
articles, or articles within one hop.

Also in SPOOLDIR is a new file .rnews.lock.tmp.  This is a 15 character
filename, which I shortened to .rnews.lock.tp.  It also isn't going
away.  I thought it might be a failed unlink() on the long name, but
changing the name didn't help.

I have had the rnews hang while unbatching on about three occasions, but 
I haven't been able to figure out the circumstances for the sticking.

So I'll toss that into the pot and see what bubbles up.

-- 
Mojo     mojo@micropro.UUCP
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Int'l Corp., Product Development
{lll-crg,ptsfa,dual,well,pyramid}!micropro!mojo
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