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From: kcantrel@digi.UUCP (Keith Cantrell)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.sys.apollo,news.software.b
Subject: Need help with rn/bnews on Apollos
Message-ID: <203@digi.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 16:11:20 GMT
Reply-To: kcantrel@digi.UUCP (Keith Cantrell)
Followup-To: news.sysadmin
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.
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I have run into a problem with running rn when rnews or rn is already running
on a different machine.  The problem is the first one will open the file
"/usr/lib/news/active" for reading and therefore the Apollo operating system
will lock it.  After this has happens, I am unable to get a second rn or rnews
to run on a different machine, the fopen complains "Text file busy".  This
problem does not exist if both programs are running on the same machine.

This was a major problem when I started up rn on my machine and rnews was
started up on a different machine and started loosing news since it could not
open the active file :-(

Has anybody else since this problem?  It is easy to reproduce, just write a
small program to open a file and executed it on two different machines and you
will see the problem.

Now for the particulars:
  Machines: DN3500
  Operating system: BSD4.3-DOMAIN/OS
  News version: "B 2.11 1/24/89"

I someone could please help me with this I would greatly appreciate it,

Keith

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