Bug in Bnews sendbatch.sh with A/UX UUCP (and maybe other SysV UUCPs)
Mike Verstegen
mdv at comtst.UUCP
Sat Sep 22 21:23:19 AEST 1990
In article <10491 at panix.UUCP> alexis at panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>Here's a Bnews bug, and one way to fix it. It's in version 2.11 (2.11.18?)
>The sendbatch is marked as version 1.22, 10/29/89.
>
>The symptom: News postings never make it off your machine.
>
>There seems to be a small bug in sendbatch. It tries to figure out how much
>space is being used by a particular UUCP partner's files, in order to prevent
>overflowing the disk. It runs du on /usr/spool/uucp/{your uucp partner}.
>
[ stuff deleted ]
>
>Alexis Rosen
>A/UX Victim (but lots happier since 2.0 came out)
>{cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis
Quite coincidentally, we had the same problem here (System V on 3B2) and just
before reading this article, I had fixed it here with a slightly different
solution as shown by the following sendbatch fragment.
: '@(#)sendbatch.sh 1.22 10/29/89'
.....
if test -n "$MAXBATCH" -a -d /usr/spool/uucp/$rmt
then
du=`du "/usr/spool/uucp/$rmt" | sed 's/ .*/000/'`
if test ! -z "$du" -a \( "$du" -gt $MAXBATCH \)
then
echo $rmt already has $du Kbytes queued
continue
fi
else # Added MDV 9/22/90: du was not set and caused
du=0 # error in expr below.
fi
.....
This seems to work here and does not require any manual intervention for
the creation of any directory. Hope this helps.
Mike
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