Ateklabs.136 net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!teklabs!terryl Fri Dec 4 23:53:20 1981 .newsrc files I agree with warren at ihnss. We here at teklabs have quite a few users in /etc/passwd(over 300). I don't know how many news articles we lost due to the locking problem; also, someone subscribed to a list that had 101 characters(when the limit was 100) and he just happened to be the first user in the .uindex file, so no one could do anything. This went on for a couple of weeks until someone said they couldn't subscribe to news. The idea of having a central file that so many processes use(without a reasonable locking mechanism) just won't work; however, I can see the point of disk utilization and so many .*rc files. They do tend to proliferate. Terry Laskodi chico!teklabs!terryl or ucbvax!teklabs!terryl ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.