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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: B 2.11.17 on UNIX System V.3 broken
Keywords: rnews -U MINFREE (!SPOOLNEWS) rnews -S -p 89... Unknown empty garbled
Message-ID: <13581@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 4 Feb 89 20:31:34 GMT
References: <1243@rivm05.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <1243@rivm05.UUCP>, ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef) wrote:
> Low free space on the system revealed some bugs in the news software.

The problem is that patches #15-17 try to save incoming articles
without immediate processing if the disk is too full.  Unfortunately,
local articles are saved in the wrong format.

Try changing this in inews.c:

	if (space()) {		/* check disk space */
		mode = PROC;
		logerr("Out of space in %s. Saving for later processing.",
					SPOOLDIR);
		dospool((char *)NULL, FALSE);

into this:

	if (space()) {		/* check disk space */
		spool_news = DO_SPOOL;
		logerr("Out of space in %s.", SPOOLDIR);

After a little more testing, I'll post a patch to fix this and some
other nits (VOID_SIGNALS doesn't work, space() doesn't check for inode
deficiencies, expire doesn't always lock history.*, and so forth).
-- 
James R. Van Artsdalen          james@bigtex.cactus.org   "Live Free or Die"
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