home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!icecube!barlow
- From: John Perry Barlow <barlow@eff.org>
- Subject: My News Feed Has Vanished..!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.004507.2488@icecube.pinedale.wy.us>
- Keywords: news newsrun in.coming NewsGrazer
- Sender: barlow@icecube.pinedale.wy.us
- Reply-To: John Perry Barlow <barlow@icecube.pinedale.wy.us>
- Organization: Annuit Coeptis
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 00:45:07 GMT
- Lines: 55
-
- I have a weird one...
-
- I recently left my NeXT for a little over a month and went to Japan (among
- other places).
-
- When I returned I opened NewsGrazer and found that every single article had
- expired and had been deleted (I have crontab automatically zip 'em after two
- weeks). Nothing new had been distributed to the proper folders.
-
- However, when I checked /usr/spool/news/in.coming, I found that it had a little
- over 16 megabytes of news which had come in and which hadn't been distributed
- by newsrun (which runs very morning at 3 AM).
-
- I ran newsrun from the command line (logged in as news) and got my prompt back
- much too quickly. There was no eternity of hard disk labor and everything
- stayed where it had been.
-
- What on Earth could this be?
-
- One possible clue: for at least a month I have been getting the following
- message every morning:
-
- > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 03:00:08 GMT-0700
- > From: news
- > Apparently-To: barlow
- >
- > expire problems:
- > expire: bad arrival date in `<12969@auspex-gw.auspex.com>707659286~-...' --
- fix by hand
- >
-
- Could that be connected?
-
- Help! Please! I suspect there are things going on in rec.music.gdead which I
- might be able to clear up. But I can't know what they are if I can't read it.
-
- Of course, I also can't read any posted responses to this, so please e-mail me
- any suggestions you might have.
-
- Many thanks.
-
-
- ************************************************
- John Perry Barlow barlow@eff.org
- P.O. Box 1009 NeXTmail to:
- 168 South Franklin barlow@icecube.pinedale.wy.us
- Pinedale, WY 82941 barlow@well.sf.ca.us
- 307/367-2466 307/367-4502 fax
-
- MAN PLANS, GOD LAUGHS
- --
- ************************************************
- John Perry Barlow barlow@eff.org
- P.O. Box 1009 NeXTmail to:
- 168 South Franklin barlow@icecube.pinedale.wy.us
-