inn-2.4.2 makehistory weirdness

[anne]

That might have been the error I got when I made the buffer_name part of 
the cycbuff entry longer than 7 chars in cycbuff.conf - can't remember 
for sure.  From cycbuff.conf (I think):

#cycbuff:buffer_name:file_name:buffer_size
# ``Buffer_name'' is the symbolic name of the  buffer.   The
# length of this name should be within 7 letters.

Could this be your problem?

Anne

Kathryn Hemness wrote:
> Greetings --
> 
> I've been building a new news server on a Sun V240 running Solaris 9 this week
> which was going very smoothly until yesterday when I attempted the first
> makehistory.  I believe the version I am building is inn-2.4.2 but I'm not
> sure (it is inn-2.4.? which was the STABLE snapshot of 6/4/2004).
> 
> I had built and had been running this version on a Solaris 8 system
> since early June without problems and I had no trouble with the
> installation besides having to add quotation marks to the inn.conf
> file and commenting out parameters having no set values.
> 
> Needless to say, I didn't expect makehistory problems on the Solaris 9 system.
> 
> On the Solaris 9 system, makehistory got the following error:
> 
>   makehistory: cannot initialize storage manager: one or more storage methods failed initialization: No such file or directory
> 
> /usr/adm/messages showed a little more information:
> 
> makehistory[13083]: [ID 371779 news.error] SM storage method 'cnfs' failed initialization
> makehistory[13083]: [ID 292155 news.error] SM one or more storage methods failed initialization
> makehistory[13165]: [ID 776734 news.error] CNFS-sm: CNFSflushhead: attempted flush whilst read only
> 
> I truss'ed makehistory and found that the CNFS buffers were all stat'ed but that
> it opened the first buffer read-only.
> 
> After spending considerable checking for *.conf file settings, file-permissions,
> and ownership problems of the cnfs buffer files, the buffindexed overview files,
> and all other files in the news path, I was stumped; all permissions and ownerships
> were correct and there were no missing files.
> 
> As a shot in the dark, I copied the makehistory binaries from the Solaris 8 inn-2.4.2
> test system and the makehistory from a Solaris 8 inn-2.3.4 server
> to the Solaris 9 box and typed makehistory....Both times the makehistory command worked.
> So then, I decided to put back the original makehistory file and run it; this time
> it was successful.
> 
> I can only conclude that the makehistory compiled on other systems was able
> to do something to the CNFS buffer files to make them R-W accessible to
> makehistory.
> 
> On the Solaris 8 systems, the gcc compiler is gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
> and on the Solaris 9 system, the gcc compiler is gcc version 3.4.0.
> 
> Has anyone else seen similar behavior and should I expect other problems from
> gcc version 3.4.0?
> 
> 
> --kathy
> 

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