latest BETA, CNFS and ovdb

[Heath Kehoe]

>Hello!
>
>Yes, it's true, the latest BETA of INN runs very stable. However, I seem
>to have problems using cnfs and ovdb. My overview, at least I think it must
>be the overview, seems to be really... well... fucked up.
>
>Almost everytime my users are trying to fetch a parent article they get the
>wrong wrong article. Clearly spoken, fetching an article by message ID that is
>older than 1-2 days (the cycbuffs didn't even roll over yet!) gives me a
>completely wrong message. Sometimes it doesn't even exist.
>

Hmm... when you retrieve an article by message ID, it does not use overview.
It uses the history file instead.  Try this, and see if the correct article
comes out:

sm `grephistory '<messageID>'`

If you can't get the correct article this way, then something is wrong
with history or article storage.

If retrieving articles by groupname and article number, and the
wrong article comes out, then it may be an overview problem.

>
>Is there something I didn't take care of? The new newsserver (I remade him
>from scratch) runs about 3 days now, so it can't really be an overview that
>has been corrupted "over a long run".
>

I agree.  What OS are you running, and what version of BerkeleyDB?

-heath