garbage in CNFS overview ??

Miquel van Smoorenburg list-inn-workers at news.cistron.nl
Sat Apr 29 10:34:48 UTC 2000


In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.10.10004291732260.29962-100000 at CHS.Dorm-GD2.NCTU.edu.tw>,
 <sysadm at CHS.twbbs.org> wrote:
>
>>}       i wonder why they were been created, and how to purge them using
>>} utilities?
>>
>>I personally was told this by someone some while ago
>>and this was due to corrupted overview index.  You
>>need to recreate all overview and purge those directories
>>manually.
>>--
>>Katsuhiro Kondou  
>
>yeah, i have purge those directories manually before, 
>but it seem that it will generate the garbage every day after running 
>"news.daily expireover lowmark".
> any other suggestion?

I saw the same problem with 2.2.2. I run 2.3.CVS now with tradindexed
and the problem is gone.

There are a lot of articles that have bogus groups in the
Newsgroups: headers. It could be that the following strings:

drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 28 09:24 ^[$B
drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 28 09:24 ^[$B;%KZ!"9bCN!"
drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 28 09:24 "Re
drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 28 09:24 (was
drwxrwxr-x  132 news  news   2048 Apr 29 09:46 .
dr-xr-xr-x    9 news  news    512 Apr 29 14:26 ..
drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 26 09:35 17:48
drwxrwxr-x   11 news  news    512 Apr 25 19:10 3dfx
drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 29 09:38 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re

actually appeared in a Newsgroup: header. Does the overview code in
2.2.2 check if a group is actually in the active file ?

Mike.
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