Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: root@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Mail Delivery Failure to uk.ac.king - Timeout Message-ID: Date: 30 Dec 89 03:50:07 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: root@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK Lines: 57 Via: 000040010180.FTP.MAIL; 30 DEC 89 3:50:54 GMT The NIFTP process was unable to deliver your mail to host uk.ac.king over janet. The reason given by the local host was: The NIFTP process gave up after 85 attempts over 170 hours Your message was not delivered to the following addresses: GPKING@uk.ac.kingston Your message begins as follows: Received: from vax.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by sun.NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK Via Ethernet with SMTP id ac14832; 23 Dec 89 1:39 GMT Received: from sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by vax.NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via Janet with NIFTP id aa13714; 23 Dec 89 1:38 GMT Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 8765; Sat, 23 Dec 89 01:38:41 GM Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5760; Sat, 23 Dec 89 01:38:41 G Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 3719; Fri, 22 Dec 89 18:00:04 C Date: Fri, 22 Dec 89 04:49:58 GMT Reply-To: tlimonce@uucp.drunivac Original-Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion From: tlimonce@uucp.drunivac Subject: Re: How do YOU accept a newsfeed? To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS Sender: ANU-NEWS%earn.ndsuvm1@uk.ac.earn-relay In article <8912190551.AA27490@uunet.uu.net>, munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) writes: > This has me beat - in newsutility do_newg calls sys_accept (or some similar > name) which should reject newsgroup ba.forsale and NOT create it - what versio n > are you running???? We're running version 5.9B (Or is it 5.9A? I'm not sure. I did at least one set of patches but it's the set that didn't include a change to the VERSION command. I guess that's 5.9A, eh?) Guess what? The problem magically fixed itself. How often does NEWS re-read the NEWS.SYS file? Only when the first person enters news? The problem went away after a few days, which is about how often there is a time when everyone exits news. I don't think we rebooted, we're pretty 24hrs around here (library automation mostly, students reading news and mail is the other reason) so if we crashed & rebooted I would have heard about it. -Tom (replying to this addres won't work yet... try tlimonce@drew.bitnet, tlimonce@drew.uucp, rutgers!drew!tlimonce or limonce@pilot.njin.net)