inn 2.3.2 getting makehistory can't write

[John Covici]

Wel, I did find some log entries -- although for some reason they were
written to news.notice.2 rather than news.notice -- never seen that
before.

Here they are (latest run).

Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2840
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2839
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2838
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2837
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2836
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2835
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2834
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2833
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: repacking group vmware.guest.windows98, offset 2832
Jul  4 04:51:02 ccs makehistory[28221]: tradindexed: packgroup cant write to /var/spool/news/spool/overview/v/g/w/vmware.guest.windows98-NEW.IDX: No such file or directory

On 4 Jul 2001, Russ Allbery wrote:

>
> John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> writes:
>
> > The exact message is
> > Makehistory: can't write overview data "@<long hex number>"
>
> Is there more detail in syslog?
>
>

-- 
         John Covici
         covici at ccs.covici.com