Server Cannot Store Article

[Russ Allbery]

Andy Malato <andym at njit.edu> writes:

> My log is full of messages like these:

> Jan 12 07:13:43 apatite.njit.edu innd: [ID 886406 news.error] tradindexed:
> could  not write index record for control.cancel:142197911

Take a look at your overview directory in c/c/control.cancel.IDX and
.DAT.  Are either file over 2GB in size or anything like that?  That's the
most common cause that I've seen for this error.  It means that prwrite to
the .IDX file has failed.

One thing to try would be to delete all of your control.cancel articles
before running makehistory; if the problem is that the overview for that
newsgroup has gotten too large, that should fix the problem.

> Jan 12 07:14:11 apatite.njit.edu innd: [ID 626876 news.error] tradspool:
> could not symlink /export/news/spool/articles/soc/culture/algeria/83839 to
> /export/news/spool/articles/soc/culture/maghreb/4399 File exists
> Jan 12 07:14:11 apatite.njit.edu innd: [ID 492761 news.error] SERVER cant
> store article: File exists

I've gotten the first message from time to time, and I'm not sure what
causes it; I haven't had a chance ot investigate yet.  I've never had it
cause the second error, though.

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