Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxle.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mp From: mp@whuxle.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: duplicate lines in active Message-ID: <267@whuxle.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 10:25:05 EST Article-I.D.: whuxle.267 Posted: Tue Feb 28 10:25:05 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Feb-84 11:52:47 EST References: <177@cbnap.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany Lines: 11 Some people were asking about how the active file gets duplicate lines. If an article comes in for a newsgroup that doesn't have a directory under the spooldir, the directory will be created by the mknewsg() routine in inews.c. As a free bonus, this routine also adds a line at the end of the active file, of the form "newsgroupname 00000", regardless of whether there's already a line for the newsgroup elsewhere in the file. This can lead to 2 (or more) lines for the same newsgroup in active. Mark