Autzoo.901 net.news utzoo!henry Mon Aug 17 23:28:26 1981 better rnews People who keep a lot of news articles around (and hence have an rnews which runs rather slowly) may have noticed that if rnews gets "news system locked up", it can lose the incoming news. Here is a simple way to prevent this: make the link to "news" be "realrnews" instead of "rnews", and make "rnews" the following shellfile: tee /tmp/rn$$ | realrnews $* >/tmp/rnm$$ 2>&1 if test -s /tmp/rnm$$ then ( echo rnews ; cat /tmp/rnm$$ /tmp/rn$$ ) | mail uucp fi rm -f /tmp/rn$$ /tmp/rnm$$ This assumes that the news/network administrator checks uucp's mailbox occasionally. We also use an almost-identical shellfile for "rmail", to catch mail sent through us to nonexistent destinations etc. The "$*" in the above is actually unnecessary for rnews, but rmail obviously needs it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.