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From: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Supersedes: filling my disk (not running news 2.11)
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Date: 1 Jan 88 07:24:14 GMT
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Reply-To: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
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Summary: Here is how I did it.


I have found a simple way to deal with the supercedes problem. When first
announced I developed a little awk/sed/shell script combination which 
I would run with crontab. It found the supercedes articles and would 
rm the article it superceded. 

But...

I only used this for a week. I decided to try to bring the news here up to 
the latest revision level. (14) I was worried that this would break things,
but I figured that it was worth a shot. My reasoning was "if the patches 
work without problem, then ill install it and watch carefully". I was
patching from 2.11.3.

So the patches worked, and so far (a month) news 2.11.14 has been running
here fine. Not a single problem. Our news system is based on one host with
real news, and the rest running rrn/remote inews. NNTP et. al. work fine
still.

So.. Before you spend time trying to figure out various ways to hack around
the supercedes problem, try just bringing news up to patchlevel 14 and see
what happens. The guys that bring us news software seem to be bending over
backwards to make it easy to install/patch.. Least we can do is try it their 
way first, eh?

A satisfied customer. :-)


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