Amit-vax.110 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!houxi!ihnss!eagle!mit-vax!mp Tue Feb 16 21:14:24 1982 netnews clogging up the uucp directory When for one reason or another (e.g. dead ACUs, dearth of dialups, or machine downtime) some system becomes inaccessible for more than a day, the uucp directory of the system forwarding netnews to it becomes hopelessly clogged with stuff; last week, eagle had over 1024 files in /usr/spool/uucp (/bin/ls wouldn't even list them all). This, of course, is not a way to make friends with the system administrators. Doing a little thinking, I came up with 2 ways to help the situation: (1) Have the netnews placed in some sort of archive, and then send out this one file once or twice a day. (2) Have uucp use a different spool directory for each system it communicates with. Neither of these can be done immediately, so far as I can see; one quick solution which has been implemented is to delete the offending system from the forwarding system's sys file (this works amazingly well...). Does anyone have any other brilliant ideas? Mark Plotnick, MIT (eagle!mit-vax!mp or ucbvax!MP@MC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.