Cleaning up INN2.2.2 due to duplicate messages?

[Russ Allbery]

Edwin <edwin.yau at rdel.co.uk> writes:

>>> Although the expired messages have gone I don't think all the headers
>>> have actually been deleted.  For example, my newsreader tries to
>>> download 7000 headers from uk.media.dvd but it only gets around 500
>>> actual headers as the rest don't exist anymore.  I tried this one
>>> three different newsreaders and all did the same thing.

> I couldn't see a /var/news/log/expire.lowmark file but I guess this is
> automatically removed?  I have an entry in expire.lastlowmark file

> uk.media.dvd 74593

> My active file currently says this:

> uk.media.dvd 0000075100 0000074593 y

> Should I re-run lowmark manually?

Well, that looks correct; there definitely aren't 7000 articles difference
between those two numbers.  So it sounds like lowmark has done what it
should do.  Was it possible you were trying before lowmark finished
running?  Are you still seeing the same symtoms?

If so, try telnetting directly to the NNTP port and entering:

        GROUP uk.media.dvd

and see what it returns.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>