From: utzoo!decvax!cca!z Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Title: Lost X files Article-I.D.: cca.4492 Posted: Thu Mar 24 09:37:36 1983 Received: Fri Mar 25 08:34:21 1983 I saw a note about this a while ago, but I don't recall a solution being mentioned. For some unknown reason, the news output from decvax to us dropped off by about 80% last week. Then yesterday at noon, decvax called us up and poured out a week's accumulation of news over a three hour period. After the dust had settled, I looked in /usr/spool/uucp and found that there were still 143 D.* files full of news, but only about 50 X.* files. Furthermore, though the X.* files should have referenced files with "cca" in their names, only two of them did; the rest referenced strange machines which I assume are all neighbors of decvax. The two X.* files which did reference cca files actually referenced nonexistent files. I had no choice but to flush all of the X.* files and build by hand (actually, by keyboard macro) a new set of X.* that properly referenced all of the D.* files. Once I did this, I cranked up a uux, and all 143 D.* files got properly fed into rnews. Does anyone know what happened to all of the X.* files that should have come with the D.* files? Furthermore, why did I get all of those X.* files which were bound for other machines? Does this mean that other people got my X.* files? Is this a problem with decvax's uucp, or with mine? And finally, does anyone have a fix? Steve Zimmerman decvax!cca!z z@cca