INND Articles missing

Howard Yuen howard.yuen at tumbleweed.com
Fri Apr 27 19:25:54 UTC 2007


By looking at the mtime with the overview folder it seems like the
articles are not getting fed.  The last modification within the overview
folder is around 3:00am when the crontab for news.daily was run.

The log tells me almost nothing...

ming:/var/log/news # ls -ltr
total 52
drwxr-xr-x  3 news news  4096 Apr 25 17:57 http
-rw-r--r--  1 news news     0 Apr 25 17:57 innfeed.status
-rw-r--r--  1 news news   835 Apr 25 17:57 inn.status
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  4096 Apr 26 04:15 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 news news     0 Apr 27 03:00 news
-rw-r--r--  1 news news     0 Apr 27 03:00 errlog
-rw-r-----  1 news news     0 Apr 27 03:00 news.crit
-rw-r-----  1 news news     0 Apr 27 03:00 news.err
-rw-rw----  1 news news     0 Apr 27 03:00 unwanted.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 news news  4096 Apr 27 03:00 OLD
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  5469 Apr 27 03:03 expire.lastlowmark
drwxr-xr-x  4 news news  4096 Apr 27 03:04 .
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news   633 Apr 27 03:07 expire.log
-rw-r-----  1 news news 16434 Apr 27 12:21 news.notice
ming:/var/log/news # tail news.notice
Apr 27 10:02:59 ming nnrpd[10964]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.archive.mailgatecheckin 0
Apr 27 10:02:59 ming nnrpd[10964]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com times user
0.003 system 0.005 idle 0.000 elapsed 1.885
Apr 27 10:02:59 ming nnrpd[10964]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com time 1885
idle 1856(9) nntpwrite 0(20) 
Apr 27 10:10:01 ming innd: news connected 19 streaming allowed
Apr 27 10:10:01 ming innd: news:19 closed seconds 0 accepted 0 refused 0
rejected 0 duplicate 0 accepted size 0 duplicate size 0
Apr 27 11:02:56 ming nnrpd[12636]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com (10.190.2.1)
connect
Apr 27 11:02:57 ming nnrpd[12636]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.archive.mailgate 0
Apr 27 11:02:58 ming nnrpd[12636]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.dev.mmsconsulting 0
Apr 27 11:02:58 ming nnrpd[12636]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.archive.mailgate.consulting 0
Apr 27 11:02:58 ming nnrpd[12636]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.projects.saturn 0
Apr 27 11:02:58 ming nnrpd[12636]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.archive.mailgatecheckin 0
Apr 27 11:02:58 ming nnrpd[12636]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com times user
0.002 system 0.004 idle 0.000 elapsed 1.844
Apr 27 11:02:58 ming nnrpd[12636]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com time 1845
idle 1841(9) nntpwrite 0(20) 
Apr 27 11:10:01 ming innd: news connected 19 streaming allowed
Apr 27 11:10:01 ming innd: news:19 closed seconds 0 accepted 0 refused 0
rejected 0 duplicate 0 accepted size 0 duplicate size 0
Apr 27 11:26:08 ming nnrpd[13270]: aloha.tumbleweed.com (10.1.1.24)
connect
Apr 27 11:26:08 ming nnrpd[13271]: aloha.tumbleweed.com (10.1.1.24)
connect
Apr 27 11:26:17 ming nnrpd[13270]: aloha.tumbleweed.com group
weed.pso.paypal 0
Apr 27 11:26:17 ming nnrpd[13270]: aloha.tumbleweed.com times user 0.002
system 0.003 idle 0.000 elapsed 8.769
Apr 27 11:26:17 ming nnrpd[13270]: aloha.tumbleweed.com time 8770 idle
8768(3) nntpwrite 0(7) 
Apr 27 11:26:17 ming nnrpd[13271]: aloha.tumbleweed.com times user 0.003
system 0.001 idle 0.000 elapsed 9.646
Apr 27 11:26:17 ming nnrpd[13271]: aloha.tumbleweed.com time 9646 idle
9644(3) nntpwrite 0(9) 
Apr 27 12:02:56 ming nnrpd[17431]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com (10.190.2.1)
connect
Apr 27 12:02:57 ming nnrpd[17431]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.archive.mailgate 0
Apr 27 12:02:57 ming nnrpd[17431]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.dev.mmsconsulting 0
Apr 27 12:02:57 ming nnrpd[17431]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.archive.mailgate.consulting 0
Apr 27 12:02:57 ming nnrpd[17431]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.projects.saturn 0
Apr 27 12:02:58 ming nnrpd[17431]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com group
weed.archive.mailgatecheckin 0
Apr 27 12:02:58 ming nnrpd[17431]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com times user
0.003 system 0.002 idle 0.000 elapsed 1.850
Apr 27 12:02:58 ming nnrpd[17431]: ns.sofia.tumbleweed.com time 1851
idle 1845(9) nntpwrite 0(20)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Davidsen [mailto:davidsen at tmr.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 11:32 AM
To: Howard Yuen
Cc: inn-workers at isc.org
Subject: Re: INND Articles missing

Howard Yuen wrote:
> Dear INN-workers,
>  
>
> We have been using INND as a newsgroup server for archiving email
> conversation for awhile (several years).  About few months ago we
> encounter a problem where new newsgroup are no longer displaying new
> articles (they exist in the directory).  After talking to Russ, it was
> recommended the issue maybe on the OS level.  So I built up a SUSE 9
> system and  copied all the articles & active & /etc/aliases &
newsgroups
> files, then ran "makehistory -b -O" to  rebuild the overview.  I am
able
> to see the missing articles now.  However, new incoming articles are
now
> not getting into the /var/spool/news/articles folder since the
> migration.  I checked all the logs there was no error or rejection
> anywhere!  The /var/log/mail shows the mail were converted to
> mailpost.....Please help.
>   

Let me take a wild stab and say that somehow you didn't pass these 
articles to the overview process, or it died, or ??? You may be able to 
see this by looking at your log and checking that the overview target is

being fed.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979



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