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Subject: Log: gnus-batch
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 13:19:10 +0200

Loading gnus...
GNUS NNTP Server: news.cerfacs.fr
Connecting to NNTP server on news.cerfacs.fr...
Reading active file...
Reading active file... done
Checking new news...
Checking new news... done
[...]
No more unread articles
Wrote /home/ralph/Tmp/log
8 files removed.
[...]
Loading ~/News/KILL...
No more unread articles
Wrote /home/ralph/Tmp/log
0 files removed.
[...]
No more unread articles
Wrote /home/ralph/Tmp/log
15 files removed.
Loading ~/News/KILL...
[...]
No more unread articles
Wrote /home/ralph/Tmp/log
0 files removed.
[...]
IO error writing /home/algol/ralph/Tmp/log: Read-only file system
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Concerning this batch run of GNUS on A Sun4 under SunOS 4.1.3 running
emacs 18.59 there are two problems:

1) The newsgroup KILL file is a symbolic link to ~/News/KILL 
for a number of my newsgroups.  Thus, my function that I execute on a
newsgroup gets executed *twice*.  First GNUS lists:

a) Loading ~/News/gnu.emacs.sources/KILL...

and later:

b) Loading ~/News/KILL...

I get the impression that GNUS is not properly updating deleted and
saved article information for once 1a is executed, articles should be
deleted or marked saved.  But the log after 1b shows the same steps
being repeated.

2)  ~/News/KILL terminates with (save-log "~/Tmp/log" t)
when in noninteractive mode.  So, why does this work 4 times and then
get?

IO error writing /home/ralph/Tmp/log: Read-only file system

Is this a memory problem and GNUS/emacs is writing over itself?  When
I execute this stuff manually I cannot recreate the error.  One thing
I notice is that GNUS garbage collects a lot when executing the above
KILL file.  Another detail is that ~/Tmp itself is a symbolic link.

Here is save-log:

(defun save-log (file &optional flg)
  (interactive "FLog: \nP")
  (save-excursion
    (set-buffer grab-log)
    (write-region (point-min) (point-max) (expand-file-name file) t t))
  (if flg (kill-buffer grab-log)))


Any suggestions?

Thanx!

Dr. Ralph P. Sobek		  Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.
Ralph.Sobek@cerfacs.fr			   Addresses are ordered by importance.
ralph@cerfacs.fr					If all else fails, try:
Telephone: (+33) 61-19-30-47			      sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU
FAX:	   (+33) 61-19-30-00
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