no local groups in my history or overview

Piet Ruyssinck Piet.Ruyssinck at rug.ac.be
Fri Feb 21 08:37:34 UTC 2003


I'm experiencing big problems with my INN 2.3.3 history and overview.
My local rug.* groups do not show up in the history and, upon
expireover, they disappear from the overview as well.

I tried the following :

# su - news
$ cd db

set lowmark of my rug.* groups to 1 :
$ grep '^rug\.' active | awk '{print $1 " 1"}' > active.low
$ ctlinnd lowmark /usr/local/news/db/active.low

rebuild overview :
$ makehistory -O -x -F

overviews OK now - clients can see the rug.* articles

renumber the rug.* groups :
$ for g in `grep '^rug\.' active | awk '{print $1}'` ; do ctlinnd renumber $g ; done

time to rebuild de history now :
$ makehistory -b -f history.n -O
$ rc.news stop
$ makedbz -s 15000000 -f history.n
$ mv history.n history
$ mv history.n.dir history.dir
$ mv history.n.hash history.hash
$ mv history.n.index history.index
$ rc.news

PROBLEM : with grephistory I cannot see my rug.* articles ; they are
          not in my history.

And after the next execution of my root cronjob :
0 3 * * * su -c "/usr/local/news/bin/news.daily expireover lowmark delayrm" news
the overviews of my rug.* groups are empty again of course :(

What could be going on here ?
I'm experiencing this problem only for my local rug.* groups.
All other groups have correct overviews and have entries in history.
What I do differently for local and non-local groups, is the way I
store them ; tradspool for local and cnfs for the others (but I don't
think that could make a difference) :

method tradspool {
  newsgroups: rug.*,local.*
  class: 0
  }

method cnfs {
  newsgroups: alt.*
  class: 1
  options: MCB01
  }

method cnfs {
  newsgroups: *
  class: 2
  options: MCB00
  }


I could run my cronjob with noexpireover, and then run something like
the following commands from time to time :

$ grep -v '^rug\.' active > active.nonRUG
$ expireover -f /usr/local/news/db/active.nonRUG -Z /usr/local/news/db/active.low
$ ctlinnd lowmark /usr/local/news/db/active.low

but that's not a very nice solution, is it ?

I truely hope someone can shed some light on this...





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Piet RUYSSINCK                         e-mail: Piet.Ruyssinck at rug.ac.be
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