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From: wes@wsccs.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Problem with News when patched at 14
Message-ID: <359@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 21:51:43 GMT
References: <504@wa3wbu.UUCP> <253@lxn.UUCP> <569@lily.UUCP>
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Keywords: crash problems sad screwy what-inodes?
Summary: Are you running SysV on your VAX?

In article <569@lily.UUCP>, det@lily.UUCP (Derek Terveer) writes:
> I was also running #8 on our vaxen at work for many, many, many moons with no
> 
> I have had no problems, except expire doesn't *always* seem to want to expire.
  [...cajoled/threatened into upgrading to patchlevel 14...]
> No severe crashes.  No crashes at all.  It does make me wonder though, 'cause
> I keep seeing people complaining about the problems they are having and i have
> seen neither hide nor hair of these problems.

Are you running System V or a Berzerkley derivative on your VAX?  The
problem with i-nodes dissappearing seems to be a SysV-ism, buried in the
kernel.

	Wes Peters
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