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From: wytten@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Dale R. Wyttenbach)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: Two things
Message-ID: <10837@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 89 17:49:02 GMT
Reply-To: wytten@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dale R. Wyttenbach)
Organization: CSci Dept., University of Minnesota, Mpls.
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First thing:

umn-cs is running 2.11.14 news on DYNIX 3.0.12 (4.2 BSD compatible).
At times that seem to correspond with the arrival of news, /usr/spool/news
starts filling up with size 0 files with a name consisting of the chars
'tr' followed by a 5 digit number.  If cron doesn't find and remove size 0
files in /usr/spool/news periodically, the /usr/spool partition runs out
of inodes within a few days.  (bad for mail)  Anyone else had this problem?

Other thing:

Someone at another department here at the U of Minnesota is trying to compile
the USENET distribution on an Encore Multimax.  They are having a hard time
getting the patches to apply correctly.  If someone out there knows where a
pre-patched distribution of news is available, please let me know so I can
tell them where to get it.

Thanks very much,

Dale Wyttenbach
news@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu