nnrpd, cnfs and binaries

[bill davidsen]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210291732480.11083-100000 at puck.litech.org>,
Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> wrote:
| 
| On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Donald Roeber wrote:
| 
| > I'm running nnrpd in daemon mode.  
| 
| (FYI, do consider running it out of inetd, if you haven't.  I don't think 
| anyone is tremendously fond of the -D code.)

Typically the startup is much faster with -D and the memory used is less
due to the data being shared COW for most functional VM implementations.
Obviously YMMV.

| 
| > When I'm reading articles, I can read from the clari buffer fine, as
| > well as the catchall buffer.  However, whenever I select a group that
| > would be stored in the binaries buffer, I'm not seeing any articles.  
| 
| Huh.  No idea, but we can try to pin it down.
| 
| Find the Message-ID of a recent article that ought to be stored in the
| binaries buffer, and feed it to bin/grephistory.  (If you get a token
| back, try feeding it to bin/sm.)  What happens?

My guess is that not using overchan is going down the "less traveled
way" and the problem is in overview for the articles. Your suggestion is
a good one, it will show if the article is present, pointing the finger
to overview.

I haven't tried running without overchan in several years, although I
have run several copies to keep up with the article rate.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.