Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: expire/rnews file locking
Message-ID: <1989Mar23.215327.28356@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <634@n3dmc.UU.NET>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 21:53:27 GMT

In article <634@n3dmc.UU.NET> johnl@n3dmc.UU.NET (John Limpert) writes:
>Is this the way the news software is supposed to work?  IMHO, rnews
>shouldn't be updating the active file while expire is running.

The problem is that expire (especially old B News expire) can take a
long time, and your news system is locked up meanwhile.
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