Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!mcvax!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: .newsrc file fixer Message-ID: <8441@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 3 Oct 89 22:36:08 GMT References: <4784@orca.WV.TEK.COM> <8437@boring.cwi.nl> <2672@taux01.UUCP> <8439@boring.cwi.nl> <1989Oct3.170740.9636@paris.ics.uci.edu> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 18 In article <1989Oct3.170740.9636@paris.ics.uci.edu> erickson@ics.uci.edu (Gary Erickson) writes: > dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: > .... > >But I checked. Rn will only check for new groups if the active file is changed. > > I understand that rrn has no way to know whether or not you've already > been asked about a newsgroup. We've got one news server, and all of > our Sun clients use rrn to get stuff from the server. I've run into > the same problem. I wonder. I just checked out rrn too (patchlevel 40) and it shows the same behaviour as rn. This was both on Alliant and Sun3; they both use a Vax BSD 4.3 as server. I checked also rrn on a Sun4 and still the same; but I do not know where that machine finds its news. Perheps it is a problem with the server? -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax