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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,news.admin
Subject: Re: rnews problem solved
Message-ID: <763@bakerst.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 23:29:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: bakerst.763
Posted: Sun Jun  7 23:29:03 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 01:21:18 EDT
References: <762@bakerst.UUCP>
Organization: It's a mystery to me ..., Winston-Salem, NC
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Xref: utgpu junk:5217 news.admin:448
Summary: sort of but not exactly

In article <762@bakerst.UUCP>, kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent) writes:
> 
> I'd've thought the second expire would have killed
> any lock file left over from a previous incomplete expire -
> if, in fact, that's where the .rnews.lock file came from.

Which it isn't.  The .rnews.lock is apparently placed by rnews
when *it* runs.  As I just had a chance to verify.


Kathy Vincent                         kathy@bakerst.UUCP
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