History out of sync

[Russ Allbery]

DavSmith <DavSmith at esoc.esa.de> writes:

> I have a couple of news servers running INN 2.2.1 with CNFS. I believe
> the history database on both these servers is out of sync with the
> contents of the buffers. When I run cnfsstat -a on either machine I get
> a great long list of the following message:

>   (Missing <someloadofcharacters at newsgroup.name>)

This generally doesn't indicate history problems, but rather premature
expiration of articles from CNFS buffers (it's generally not a
reader-noticeable problem).  Have you set up groups to expire in
control.ctl?

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