SUMMARY: Inn problems

From: Rasana P. Atreya (Rasana.Atreya@library.ucsf.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 29 1996 - 11:24:11 CST


Hi,

Thanks to the following people for helping me out!

From: Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Author: Marina Daniels at CCD
From: Simon.Morse@ccd.tas.gov.au (Simon Morse)
From: "D.J.Peacock" <D.J.Peacock@reading.ac.uk>
From: "David Evans" <djve@deakin.edu.au>
From: Thomas Kent Go <tgo@wsc.com>

My original post and the responses follow.

Thank a lot!!
Rasana

PS: I did not find the "scanspool" command D.J.Peacock suggested.
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Hi!
     
I've been getting the following message persistently for 5 days now.
     
Any help will be appreciated.
     
Thanks much,
Rasana
     
------- Forwarded Message
>From daemon Tue Mar 26 09:14:04 1996
To: news
Subject: Output from "cron" command
     
Your "cron" job
     
$INN/bin/expire
     
produced the following output:
     
Bad entry, "al"
Bad entry, "al"
Bad entry, "alt.se"
Bad entry, "alt.tas"
Bad entry, "alt.t"
Bad entry, "alt"
     
     
------- End of Forwarded Message
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From: Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
  
After looking at the source for expire, it seems that the errors mean that you have
entries in your history file where the article path is simply "al" or "alt.se"
instead of something like "alt.2600/151561". This probably happened when your history
file got a write failure because your disk partition filled. You need to throttle INN
and then find the bad entries and delete the lines they're in.

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Author: Marina Daniels at CCD
From: Simon.Morse@ccd.tas.gov.au (Simon Morse)

     Rasana,
     
     Are these files in your active file? Are you running INN? Are these
     files in your newsgroups file? are there directories in your
     news-spool area relating to these "groups", are you able to shut down
     news?
     
     Simon.

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From: "D.J.Peacock" <D.J.Peacock@reading.ac.uk>

On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Rasana P. Atreya wrote:

>
> I've been getting the following message persistently for 5 days now.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
try these for clues

$INN/bin/inncheck -pedantic -v -a

$INN/bin/scanspool -v

I'd guess that there's a problem in the history or active files
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From: Thomas Kent Go <tgo@wsc.com>

        Make sure these newsgroup exist. I think I had this
problem once and found out that the newsgroup didn't exist. If that
is the case...you have to remove it in the "active" file.
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From: "David Evans" <djve@deakin.edu.au>

I'm not good enough (or experienced enough) yet to resolve this one
remotely but I can say it is probably covered in the INN FAQ. It is
available from the news groups: news.software.nntp or news.answers
and is also available from places like rtfm.mit.edu.

If it is how you the cron job runs our one is:
/local/inn/bin/news.daily expdir=/var/spool/news/INN flags="-v1 -s" delayrm

Notice we expire news via news.daily. We only use expire by hand in
extreme cases.

Good luck,

David Evans

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