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.