Cleaning up INN2.2.2 due to duplicate messages?

[Edwin]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> 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.


I check the above about 30 minutes ago but the news.daily ran at 3am
this morning so I guess it would have finished by now...  :-)  The
results were from that news.daily report.

I get this result from telnetting to my news server as you suggested:

GROUP uk.media.dvd
211 7094 67921 75105 uk.media.dvd

I guess the 7094 is the figure we're all interested in.  I tested
Netscape Communicator and Free Agent newsreaders and they both tried to
download 7000+ articles initially but retrieved around 500.  I know that
I can't see 7000+ articles via the newsreader, so I'm assuming that
either the article exists but I can't access it or there is a marker or
header somewhere that isn't getting updated or deleted properly. 
Perhaps the overview corruption I had last week had something to do with
it?

Regards,

Edwin

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