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From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: inews.c help needed desparately.
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Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 17:25:34 EDT
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[Aren't you hungry...]

	Sorry if my last posting went partial - I got interrupted by a
talk daemon...

	In any case, I think that this has come up before, and I am hoping
someone knows a fix.  I am trying to get netnews up on our system, and having
some trouble with the last phase of inews.c  I have compiled with debug,
and what I get runs (edited) as follows:

History returns FALSE
/* appropriate miscelaneous complaints about which article number due to
   not updating active on previous attempts... */
ACTIVE close status = -1

The last line is the problem.  We are running EUNICE (4.1 emulation),

And installing multiple DEBUG ifdefs revealed that what is happening is that
the flush on the buffer is failing.  The article has already been installed.
(/usr/spool/news/test/#), but the active file does not get updated.

If I update the active file by hand, readnews works exactly right...

If anyone out there has a fix, would they please be so kind as to mail it
to me?  I already have in the file the 4.1 fix which closes and reopens
the ACTIVE file...

Thanks in advance...

Jonathan Shapiro
Haverford College
Haverford, Pa. 19041