Urgent help needed with "stuck" bnews spooled postings
thad at btr.btr.com
thad at btr.btr.com
Thu Mar 7 07:48:58 AEST 1991
I posted an "en passant" remark about a bunch of my postings to comp.sys.3b1
never making it out to the world. Last night, at dinner after a computer
meeting, Dave Herron (dherron at twg.com) commented in response to my question
the files could be found in /usr/spool/news/.rnews and that they were placed
there while expire is running (causing the "Your post is spooled for later
processing" messages when originally posted).
I checked, and, by golly, they ARE there!
Question: HOW to fire these up so they make it out to the world?
There are two types of files:
executable cunbatch scripts, and
executable inews scripts
If you have some clues or know how to do this, please send email ASAP either
to me or to cs at btr.com (I'm just a customer/user here at BTR and would relay
the info to ``cs'' anyway). BTR is running bnews on SunOS 4.0.* if that
makes any difference.
Many thanks!
Thad
P.S. For reference, here's a partial listing of the type of files about which
I'm talking about (my posts are the "small" files):
[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 295965 Feb 25 06:26 910225142660e3
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1389 Mar 1 02:04 91030110052553
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1403 Mar 1 02:19 91030110202583
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1741 Mar 1 02:29 910301103025a3
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 2395 Mar 1 02:42 910301104325c0
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1470 Mar 1 02:51 9103011052266a
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 255640 Mar 1 03:05 910301110531e3
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 2311 Mar 1 03:05 91030111062719
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 1443 Mar 1 03:11 91030111122743
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 242874 Mar 1 03:16 910301111631eb
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 888 Mar 1 04:12 910301121327d3
[...]
and here's a "file *" of the same range of files:
[...]
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910225142660e3: executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030110052553: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030110202583: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301103025a3: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301104325c0: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/9103011052266a: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301110531e3: executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030111062719: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030111122743: executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301111631eb: executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301121327d3: executable inews script
[...]
Thad Floryan [ thad at btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
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