From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28790 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pieter Wenk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What is the use of /var/lock/news Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:55:36 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <20000117075536.A450@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> References: <20000114221642.A10969@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> <20000115083930.A506@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> <20000116104312.C663@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> <20000116202910.A3507@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165574 31644 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771CBD051E for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:58:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAB10099; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:58:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:58:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA28298 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:57:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from monterosa.urbanet.ch (monterosa.urbanet.ch [195.202.193.104]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F60AD051F for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:56:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 22389 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2000 06:56:23 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO sre-4-139.urbanet.ch) (195.202.209.139) by monterosa.urbanet.ch with SMTP; 17 Jan 2000 06:56:23 -0000 Original-Received: (from p.wenk@localhost) by sre-4-139.urbanet.ch (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00524 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:55:36 +0100 Original-To: "(ding)" Mail-Followup-To: "(ding)" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: X-Uptime: 7:43am up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 0.88, 0.57, 0.23 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28790 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28790 On dim, 16 jan 2000, Kai Großjohann wrote: >Pieter Wenk writes: > >> Know with an existing lock file...fetching will not >> work correctly and you might notice this only too >> late.... > >??? > Ooops. Please read: Know with an existing lock file...fetching will not work correctly and you might notice this only too late.... Kai, when I am under user account you are not advised, that such a lock file is created....I have an entry in my crontab doing this job every 15 minutes... Regards -- / / (_)____ __ ____ __ Pieter Wenk / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Vevey/Switzerland /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\