Problem with ctlinnd newgroup

[Russ Allbery]

Nicole Britz <inn at nacamar.de> writes:

> I'm running INN 2.2.2 on FreeBSD 3.4 with TradSpool. Everything has been
> working fine, but suddenly INN crashes each time I do 'ctlinnd newgroup
> any.new.group y' and my active is full of those ^@ or duplicates of
> other lines in the active file.

> I knew that docheckgroups can lead to some strange effects, but a simple
> ctlinnd newgroup also ends up in a messy active. :-(

Stop INN complete, clean out the active file, and restart it.  After doing
that, are you still seeing these problems?

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