Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: Troubles adding batches with 5.9B Message-ID: <8912190723.AA14204@uunet.uu.net> Date: 19 Dec 89 21:55:28 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 31 >We are running NEWS 5.9B. > >Last night a large number of articles that arrived in "rnews" format were >rejected by the add/network command, with messages of the form > > Add news.group: JUNK (Cannot open output file (write access)) >or > Add junk: REJECT (Cannot open output file (write access)) > ....... check which account owns the itm files, and then check the diskquota entry - it looks like you are out of quota (or out of free space on the disk). > >Suggestions: 1. Add an interpretation of the error status return from >file open attempts. These messages would be a lot more helpful if >accompanied by "no privilege for attempted operation" or "no such device" >or whatever. 2. All error messages should have some sort of indicator in >them to distinguish them from all the other output from an ADD BATCH. I'd >like to have the once-a-night NEWSSKIM do a SEARCH of the previous day's >ADD BATCH log files looking for error messages, and mail the result to >the news manager. its just another of the integration problems - vaxc is not quite VMS - at this point the NEWS code sees a -1 value from a file operation and says "oh well - nice try" - to get past this to the RMS return status is what you are asking for... could be interesting! Geoff Huston