Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!uwvax!dave From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs) Newsgroups: net.news,net.bugs Subject: Re: Not checking printf's result causes another news bug Message-ID: <263@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 14:34:36 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.263 Posted: Sat Aug 17 14:34:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 06:15:45 EDT References: <2638@sun.uucp> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.news:3823 net.bugs:667 I had an even worse problem with receiving new news recently. My /usr filesystem filled up (where /usr/lib/news lives, of course) and expire ran. What happened then? Well, log ==> olog, history ==> ohistory, etc and the active file got rebuilt. But wait, there wasn't any space left (and I mean none, root was at fault), so the log, history, and active files ended up being NULL which causes problems for people trying to read news. News, especially expire and inews, must check their files to make sure they aren't blowing everything away. -- Dave Cohrs (608) 262-1204 ...!{harvard,ihnp4,seismo,topaz}!uwvax!dave dave@wisc-romano.arpa