ctlinnd crashes innd 2.2.1

[Russ Allbery]

Matthew Harrell <mharrell at bittwiddlers.com> writes:

> I recently set up inn 2.2.1 (the Redhat 6.1 RPM version) so it holds a
> couple of newsgroups from an upstream server and caches mailing list
> articles into local newsgroups.  Anyway, recently sometime after I
> upgraded from the 2.2.0 RPM to the 2.2.1 RPM I now no longer seem to be
> able to add or remove newsgroups from the system.  When I try either
> "ctlinnd rmgroup something" or "ctlinnd newgroup something" it kills the
> innd process and I can't restart it without copying active.old onto
> active first.

> When I edit active I notice that the final line consists entirely of
> control characters and the ctlinnd command tacked the new newgroup onto
> the end of the control character line.  I figure that control character
> thing is the problem but innd seems to want it there.

> What the heck am I doing wrong?

You need to stop the server completely and fix the munged active file
first; that's killing innd.  Then, make sure that you're using the right
ctlinnd.  I'm wondering if you're using the 2.2.0 ctlinnd with a 2.2.1
server or vice versa.

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