innd stops responding

[Heath Kehoe]

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On Jul 19, 2004, at 8:50, Alex Kiernan wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:42:48 -0700, Gary Thandi <gary.thandi at 360.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> yes.  i've had to resort to stopping and starting all news processes 
>> every
>> 60 minutes.
>>
>
> Try getting a snapshot - I know Heath's made some fixes to the ovdb
> code, but I've not tried those.

Either that, or you can get this patch: 
http://www.avalon.net/~hakehoe/inn/ovdb_2.4.1_patch.txt

> Certainly the behaviour you're seeing is typical for ovdb on Solaris;
> I'm not sure if anyone's addressed the way nnrpd does termination yet,
> but last time I looked it seemed like if you took a signal at the
> wrong moment, nnrpd would try and make calls into ovdb (and hence
> BerkeleyDB) in a re-entrant fashion, which isn't supported (not
> unreasonably) by BerkeleyDB.

Whoa!!!  I never knew about this.  OK, looks like the sigpipe handler
calls ExitWithStats.  Yuck!!  But how often does nnrpd exit in this way?

There's an easy workaround:  turn on readserver in ovdb.conf, and 
restart
news.  With readserver on, the nnrpd doesn't access BerkeleyDB directly,
thus avoiding the signal handler problem.

- - h
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