HELP !!!!! rnews -U WON'T work

[Mark A. Emanuele]

HELP !!!

I am running SCO 3.2.2  bnews 2.11pl19

when running expire or rnews -U, I get the error message:

inews: Can't lock /usr/spool/news/.rnews Invalid argument

Then a shell prompt and no news gets unbatched.

Please e-mail as news is not too reliable yet.

Thanks,
Mark A. Emanuele
emanuele at overlf.uucp

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Mark A. Emanuele
V.P. Engineering  Overleaf, Inc.
218 Summit Ave   Fords, NJ 08863
(908) 738-8486                           emanuele at overlf.UUCP