Xref: utzoo news.software.b:1536 comp.sys.hp:1006 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uccba!uceng!kamat From: kamat@uceng.uc.edu (Govind N. Kamat) Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sys.hp Subject: problems with News expire on HP 9000/840 Keywords: expire problem hp Message-ID: <124@uceng.uc.edu> Date: 8 Aug 88 03:46:12 GMT Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg. Lines: 43 I have been having problems with News 2.11.14 ever since I installed it on our HP 9000/840 running HP-UX (HP's version of System V with Berkeley enhancements). The problems are mainly with expire. If new articles come in when expire is running, they get spooled into /usr/spool/news/.rnews, to be unspooled later by "rnews -U" which is invoked automatically when expire is done. But rnews does not seem to be able to extract the filenames of the spooled files correctly, and I get error messages like: inews: freopen (*part of filename here*): No such file or directory inews: rnews failed, status 256. Batch saved in /usr/spool/news/*same name* Rnews loops, giving the same bunch of messages again and again, until I kill it. Nothing is saved in /usr/spool/news/ in spite of what the error messages say. In fact, even if I delete all the files in .rnews and then invoke "rnews -U", it still grabs identical garbage filenames from the directory-file .rnews, and the same problem re-occurs. Another problem is that the rebuild history-file option of expire seems to truncate the history file to an empty file. The earliest article numbers in the active file get rotated to the latest, although the articles themselves are not deleted. Although we are System V, HP has provided dbm, and I am using that. Lastly, the l and L commands of vnews which are supposed to list articles in a newsgroup don't give any output. Since the Netnews software seems to be running fine on most machines, these problems could be something specific to the HP 9000 series. If someone out in netland has fixes or information about either problem, I'll really appreciate hearing about it. Thanks in advance. -- Govind N. Kamat University of Cincinnati kamat@uceng.uc.edu [129.137.33.1]