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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Another News "Gotcha"
Message-ID: <1988Mar12.235634.11627@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: BATCHDIR, low blocks
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <442@obdient.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 88 23:56:34 GMT

> ...  shouldn't  there be some way to tell rnews (or whatever
> the equivalent C-news program will be) to shut down if there
> isn't  enough  space  in  the  $NEWSDIR  and/or  to  prevent
> sendbatch from running if it can't write in the $BATCHDIR?

C news generally tries to be careful about responding intelligently to
full filesystems.  It's not perfect, but it generally does okay.  In
particular, our sendbatches command carefully observes free-space limits
(and limits on the length of uucp queues to other sites) when preparing
batches.
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry