[1354] in SIPB bug reports
XRN truncates .newsrc and .oldnewsrc if home locker not correctly mapped
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Oct 15 21:47:30 1990
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 21:47:01 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: warsh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: warsh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Sun, 14 Oct 90 21:23:40 EDT <9010150123.AA02465@W20-575-125.MIT.EDU>
From: warsh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 90 21:23:40 EDT
Program: XRN on rt, athena 7.1H
Problem: I logged in and ran xrn. Unknown to me at the time, athena
had not properly mapped my locker, so that quota -v didn't show a quota
value for me. The first time I ran xrn, it said some to the effect of:
Cannot parse .newsrc file on line 1
When I examined the .newsrc file, it had been blanked and contained one
empty line. The .oldnewsrc file also contained one empty line.
You've got things a little bit wrong. If you were not properly mapped
to your locker, there is *no way* xrn could have erased the contents
of your .newsrc file. It sounds like you were over your disk quota
the *last* time you were logged in, and that's when your .newsrc files
got wiped out.
I'm not sure why both of them got blanked; that should not have
happened. Unfortunately, I don't have time to look into it right now,
and it isn't a pressing problem. I would suggest that your best
solution to the problem is not to run xrn when you're over your quota
:-).
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Watchmaker and User Consultant
Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) member
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
