History problems, probably chained

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Zenon Panoussis wrote:

> I am trying to cancel some messages and failing. As I go
> along, I run into more errors.
> 
>    ctlinnd cancel "msg-id"
>
> returns Ok, but the messages are still on the server and
> available to the readers after news.daily has run.

If that's seriously what you typed, I expect your problem is that the 
msg-id had some $ characters in it, and your shell tried to expand them as 
variables inside double-quotes ("").  Always use single-quotes ('') for 
Message-IDs.
 

>    expire begin Sun Jun 13 19:14:32 CEST 2004: (-v1)
>        Can't reserve server
>        Article lines processed        0
> 
> Restarting the server completely doesn't change this,
> news.daily still can't reserve it. 

But the server otherwise works?  What does `ctlinnd mode` show?  Is there 
anything in the logs corresponding to when expire fails to reserve?


> And when that problem
> goes away, I guess I'll be back at the duplicate messages
> being in expire's way.

Those duplicate messages are not a problem.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org