[2.3] lowmark

[Bettina Fink]

/me wrote:

>> Have you tried other ovmethods?
> 
> It's a test machine, so I don't mind changing the overview method.
> I'll try tradindexed ...

Ok, some new data, still timecaf, but now tradindexed. Started
from scratch with fresh spool and history.

| de.alt.dateien.misc 0000000132 0000000131 y

| 200 nautilus.visp-europe.psi.com InterNetNews NNRP server 
| INN 2.3.1 (20000831 prerelease) ready (posting ok).
| group de.alt.dateien.misc    
| 211 2 131 132 de.alt.dateien.misc

So active and "group" claim that the group has 2 articles (131
and 132). That's not true, the group is empty. But overview data
is still around:

[~/spool/overview/d/a/d/m]$ ll de.alt.dateien.misc.*
-rw-rw----    1 news     news          498 Sep  2 03:02 de.alt.dateien.misc.DAT
-rw-rw----    1 news     news         4680 Sep  2 03:02 de.alt.dateien.misc.IDX

[~/spool/overview/d/a/d/m]$ cat de.alt.dateien.misc.DAT
131     Check this HArdcore rarity!  6001       lzlnij at yahoo.com        Fri, 01 Sep 2000 06:58:53 GMT   <NsIr5.26419$pA4.402781 at telenews.teleline.es>          1148     5       Xref: nautilus.visp-europe.psi.com de.alt.dateien.misc:131 de.alt.dateien.weibsbilder:47804 de.alt.dummschwatz:29301 de.alt.fan.aldi:9378 de.alt.fan.bluemchen:2838
132     Everyone please atleast check this site out!!   unknown at secret.com     Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:22:21 GMT    <01090004.2800 at secret.com>              1536   6Xref: nautilus.visp-europe.psi.com de.alt.dateien.misc:132


Let's look around for these two articles:

Sep  1 09:15:41.247 + mail.unlisys.net <NsIr5.26419$pA4.402781 at telenews.teleline.es> (@04000039AF57000900000000000000000000@) 1148 wuff akk

Sep  1 09:22:33.977 + news.akk.uni-karlsruhe.de <cancel.NsIr5.26419$pA4.402781 at telenews.teleline.es> (@04000039AF59001B00000000000000000000@) 1637 wuff unlisys

Sep  1 09:22:33.977 c news.akk.uni-karlsruhe.de <cancel.NsIr5.26419$pA4.402781 at telenews.teleline.es> Cancelling <NsIr5.26419$pA4.402781 at telenews.teleline.es>

Sep  1 10:22:50.432 + mail.unlisys.net <01090004.2800 at secret.com> (@04000039AF67000600000000000000000000@) 1536 akk

Sep  1 12:50:57.119 + news.akk.uni-karlsruhe.de <cancel.01090004.2800 at secret.com> (@04000039AF8A00B000000000000000000000@) 1977 unlisys

Sep  1 12:50:57.119 c news.akk.uni-karlsruhe.de <cancel.01090004.2800 at secret.com> Cancelling <01090004.2800 at secret.com>


So both articles were cancelled, but their overview data is still
around, even after a news.daily run:

| expireover start Sat Sep  2 03:01:25 CEST 2000
| expireover end Sat Sep  2 03:05:22 CEST 2000


"xover" tells the truth: The group has no articles.

| group de.alt.dateien.misc    
| 211 2 131 132 de.alt.dateien.misc
| xover 131-132
| 224 131-132 fields follow
| .


But the active has an incorrect lowmark and overview data for
the two cancelled articles is still around.


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BTW, wrong active numbers seem to haunt me. The machine I've
mentioned some posts ago (2.2.3 with trad spool) has its own
mind on lowmarks too, but in a slightly different way.

de.newusers.infos 0000001793 0000001584 m

news at wuff:~/spool/articles/de/newusers/infos > ll
-rw-rw-r--   3 news     news        51298 Sep  1 00:03 1779
-rw-rw-r--   3 news     news       190202 Sep  1 00:03 1780
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news         1878 Sep  1 00:03 1781
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news        13321 Sep  1 00:03 1782
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news        18129 Sep  1 00:03 1783
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news         7160 Sep  1 00:03 1784
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news        27718 Sep  1 00:03 1785
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news         5243 Sep  1 00:03 1786
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news        12907 Sep  1 00:03 1787
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news        15830 Sep  1 00:03 1788
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news        10397 Sep  1 00:03 1789
-rw-rw-r--   3 news     news        22089 Sep  1 00:03 1790
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news         4966 Sep  1 00:03 1791
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news        16157 Sep  1 00:03 1792
-rw-rw-r--   2 news     news         5607 Sep  1 23:57 1793

1584 is wrong, must be 1779. "ctlinnd renumber de.newusers.infos"
corrects this. To prevent setting the lowmark wrong again, I've
deleted "expire.lastlowmark" and did a "ctlinnd renumber" on
the complete active. Did a "expireover -a". But after tonights
news.daily:

news at wuff:~/log > grep de.newusers.infos expire.lastlowmark
de.newusers.infos 1584

AIIIH! Where is this "1584" coming from?

news at wuff:~/spool/overview/de/newusers/infos > grep 1584 .overview
news at wuff:~/spool/overview/de/newusers/infos > 

*mpf*

Bettina