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From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .rnews directory, what is it, and how to get it flushed out.
Message-ID: <1019@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 23 May 89 12:40:57 GMT
References: <199620@hrc.UUCP>
Organization: University of Sussex
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From article <199620@hrc.UUCP>, by dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel):
> 
> I had to stop uux due to too many processes. I noticed that .rnews has
> a few megabytes of files in it's directory. How do I start
> news back up to take care of it? And what exactly is .rnews used for?

/usr/spool/news/.rnews is a directory which holds batched articles when
they have been received from your feed host, if your news s/w has been
built with the SPOOLNEWS option defined.  Periodic execution of
/usr/lib/news/inews -u should unbatch these files into the correct
newsgroups and delete the batch files afterwards.  Therefore .rnews
should be empty after an inews -u run.
-- 
Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, ENGLAND
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