Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!cander
From: cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: batching problem
Message-ID: <1339@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 18:13:14 GMT
References: <6122@claris.com>
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From article <6122@claris.com>, by skip@claris.com (Brian Schipper):
> Why do only some of my comp.mail.map updates get put into a batch file?
> I have a line in my sys file like this:
> 
>     maps:world,comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/spool/news/maps/comp.mail.maps/Batch
> 
> But only some of the map updates make it into the file.  For example, here
> are two entries that came in contiguously.  One made it in and one didn't.
> I'm running news 2.11, patchlevel 14. 

I have also had this problem under 2.10.?? and 2.11.12.  I first
noticed it when I was forwrding news to another machine on our network
that wasn't running NFS.  There was a major discrepancy between the
number of articles recevied by the two machines.  I found that ~10% of
all articles received were not forwarded.  There didn't seem to be any
particular groups that were singled out for this bad propigation.  It
didn't seem to matter if it was a full or partial feed.  I always
assumed it was a "feature" with inews/rnews.  I wrote a shell script
and two awk scripts to search the log for articles that weren't
forwarded, look them up in the history file, and append them to a list
of batch files.  The script assumes full feeds and that all sites are
batched (i.e., I never spent the time to parse the sys file). It also
has a special case for unsharing the map files from comp.mail.maps.  If
anyone's interested, I'm willing to mail or post them, or perhaps there
is a real fix to this problem, instead of a kludge after the fact.


-- 

Charles.
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