
May 2, 1999
5:50 p.m.
"SD" == Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:
SD> I have two kinds of errors. Has anyone ever seen these? This
SD> is 1.0b11, python 1.5.2 on Solaris 2.5.
It's possible the lock is getting stolen if it takes longer than 5 minutes to pull the messages off the newsgroup. Try cranking up the timeout on the lock in gate_news and changing the cron entry to run gate_news less often.
-Barry