Problem with history
Andy Hawkins
a.hawkins at cabletime.com
Thu Dec 8 10:16:44 UTC 2005
Hi,
I recently started having problems with news.daily running on my
installation of INN on Debian Stable (the version in the banner is
'InterNetNews server INN 2.4.3 (20050407 prerelease)'
I started getting the following messages in my news.daily report:
expire begin Tue Dec 6 04:18:25 GMT 2005: (-v1)
expire: dbzsync: putcore failed
expire: dbzinit: dbzinit already called once
expire: can't dbzinit /var/lib/news/history Success
expire: dbz: fseeko failure in putconf: Bad file descriptor
/usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: line 1: 15001 Segmentation fault
expire
+-v1
The server was left paused after the run.
I have tried cleaning out all the articles and overview data, and rebuilding
my history file using
su news -c "/usr/lib/news/bin/makehistory -O -T /tmp"
After this, I end up with the following history files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Dec 8 10:04 history
-rw-r--r-- 1 news news 43 Dec 8 10:04 history.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 news news 60000000 Dec 8 10:04 history.hash
-rw-r--r-- 1 news news 40000000 Dec 8 10:04 history.index
However, if I do a 'du' on the files, I get:
gently:/var/lib/news# du -h history*
0 history
1.0K history.dir
0 history.hash
0 history.index
Why are the history.hash and history.index files so big in the 'ls' output,
but 'du' shows them not using any space? Is this related to the expire
failing?
Thanks for any advice.
Andy
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