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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Problem with News when patched at 14
Message-ID: <914@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 10 Mar 88 11:41:11 GMT
References: <504@wa3wbu.UUCP> <253@lxn.UUCP> <410190420@nwnexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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Keywords: crash problems sad screwy what-inodes?

I've been running news patchlevel #14 since it came out on my 286 2.2, and
now for the last week on my 386 2.2l, with no "lost" inodes.  However, I have
found that my slightly-modified inews must be compiled without the optimizer,
or it produces a bad history file.  I'm not going to try to track down the
exact cause of the problem, as hopefully the new compiler from uPort is coming
soon...

On those inodes: Come on people, inodes don't just "disappear".  If they're
truly being lost by the kernel (highly unlikely), fsck will show it.  If
they're getting eaten by the /tmp locks (more likely), an "ls /tmp" will show
it, and if the inodes are being consumed by .ina and other SPOOLDIR temporary
files (most likely), "find SPOOLDIR -type f -name '.*' -print" will find them.
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