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From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .rnews directory, what is it, and how to get it flushed out.
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Date: 25 May 89 12:57:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk's message of 23 May 89 12:40:57 GMT

andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
   /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.

Also, when expire(8) is running and has locked the active file,
incoming news batches are dropped in /usr/spool/news/.rnews as a
holding area until expire completes.

   Periodic execution of
   /usr/lib/news/inews -u should unbatch these files into the correct
   newsgroups and delete the batch files afterwards.

`inews' knows no option -u.  It is instead -U and must be used when
invoked as `rnews.'  This is the Unspool mode; it should be run
periodically by itself via cron, and is also how expire(8) completes
its work: After the actual expiration is complete, expire exec's
"rnews -U" directly, to flush the .rnews area.

--Karl