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From: moline@trwrb.UUCP (Dan Molinelli)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: bug with inews
Message-ID: <1834@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 14:44:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 14:44:08 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 04:46:42 EDT
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Lately i've been noticing zero length files owned by news in our /tmp.
Like:
-rw-r--r--  1 news            0 Apr 28 11:09 /tmp/L<1831@trwrb.uucp>
-rw-r--r--  1 news            0 Apr 28 11:11 /tmp/L<1832@trwrb.uucp>
-rw-r--r--  1 news            0 Apr 28 11:12 /tmp/L<1833@trwrb.uucp>

Apparently, users were trying to post articles (with Pnews and postnews)
and when ../lib/news/log exceeded 1MB (we set a filesize limit of 1MB
for new users) they would receive an error message and terminate
without posting. but, these L* Files would be left around by inews.
(Probably a problem linking and writing the log file.)
(I've also noticed .in* files in /usr/spool/news .)

To get around this, we just truncate the log file sooner via cron.

Has anyone else experience this? And is there a fix?

We're running news 2.11 (patch 4) on a Pyramid 98X.

Thanks

Daniel Molinelli
TRW Electronics & Defense Sector
Financial and Data Services Division
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