Server Cannot Store Article

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Andy Malato <andym at njit.edu> writes:
> 
> > 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.

Ah, perceptive.  (Is there any useful information in errno that would make 
that error message more informative?)


> 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.

An alternative is to keep control.cancel in a relatively small cycbuff so 
that it can never have enough articles to worry about.


> > 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.

That's very odd -- I'd expect the symlink error to occur in exactly the 
same cases, except with much lower frequency since it requires a 
crossposted.  Curious.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org