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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .rnews directory, what is it, and how to get it flushed out.
Message-ID: <3233@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 16:35:29 GMT
References: <199620@hrc.UUCP> <1019@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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In article <1019@syma.sussex.ac.uk> 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.

It also holds incoming batches while expire is running, whether or not
SPOOLNEWS is defined.  expire fires of an "rnews -U" command at the end
to unspool everything.
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