Possible reason for "rnews: cant unspool"?

Fri Apr 8 15:57:02 UTC 2005

At Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:13:31 +0200,
Paul Marques Mota wrote:
> You missed news.notice:
> 
> Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav
> [innwatch:load] 1977 gt 1500

I still wonder what is the origin of the problem.  Surely load was high,
but that's no reason for messages to end up in "incoming/bad".

Again, some data from the logs:

/var/log/news/OLD$ zgrep unknown_reply news.notice.1.gz       
Apr  7 21:51:00 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav [innwatch:load] 1744 gt 1500
Apr  7 22:27:29 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav [innwatch:load] 1977 gt 1500
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav [innwatch:load] 1977 gt 1500
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav [innwatch:load] 1977 gt 1500
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav [innwatch:load] 1977 gt 1500
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav [innwatch:load] 1977 gt 1500
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav [innwatch:load] 1977 gt 1500
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: unknown_reply after article 400 loadav [innwatch:load] 1977 gt 1500

/var/log/news/OLD$ zcat news.err.1.gz 
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: cant unspool saving to /var/spool/news/incoming/bad/localhostBiQ9sM
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: cannot fgets after ihave: Connection reset by peer
Apr  7 22:32:29 genba rnews: cant unspool saving to /var/spool/news/incoming/bad/localhost0FSy7A

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Felix E. Klee