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From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: News on CCI Power 6/32
Message-ID: <171@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 6 Jan 88 02:23:36 GMT
Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: STC Pty Ltd, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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On the off-chance that someone else somewhere is installing NEWS on the
CCI Power 6/32, this will save you from getting bitten.

The problem was that /tmp was getting filled by enormous "crout*" files,
generated by CRON.  They contained thousands (!) of lines of the form
"Inbound news is garbled", and weird file names like ".../.rnews/>M".
The same lines appeared in log and errlog.

This was traced to EXPIRE invoking RNEWS with -U to unspool anything that
may have arrived while expiring.

Now, the CCI Power 6/32 (bless its 5 board CPU) is a SysVile machine
with a Berzerkely file system and networking, and specifying USG in
the Makefile caused the fake directory reading routines to be used.

Easily fixed of course (just fudged it with #ifdef CCI), but I wonder
how many other hybrid machines there are out there, just waiting to
stab you in the back with a blind choice of BSD or USG?

-- 
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