Arabbit.363 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!rabbit!sjb Sun Mar 7 13:04:17 1982 Checknews Bug and Fix A bug in checknews became apparent to me when I created some empty newsgroup directories in SPOOLDIR and then empty dot files to save some headaches when new groups came in (i.e. I took the active list from rabbit and made the necessary directories for those groups on the ``new'' alice) In any case, when checknews sees a dot file with no line for it in .newsrc , it assumes that there is news there that has not been read. In this case, that is not true. The fix is simple. Line 290 of checknews.c reads: yep(argv); change it to: if (statbuf.st_size > 0) yep(argv); continue(); Adam P.S. I tested 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.