From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: Re: sys file help needed
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2584
Posted: Thu Sep  2 13:58:55 1982
Received: Sun Sep  5 03:47:51 1982
References: ihuxw.209

What's happening is that inews creates a lock file in /tmp on a
per-article-id basis.  If two inewes are running at the same time
with the same /tmp, they will lock each other out.

There is no provision for a configurable lock file directory in
inews, because this situation was never anticipated.  However,
it seems straightforward to move one of the lock directories
to /usr/tmp or somewhere else.