news reader cannot see articles
Howard Yuen
howard.yuen at tumbleweed.com
Sat Jan 27 06:29:32 UTC 2007
Hummmmm...I don't have those option for tdx-util...I am attaching the
man page below...
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InterNetNews Documentation TDX-UTIL(8)
NAME
tdx-util - Tradindexed overview manipulation utility
SYNOPSIS
tdx-util [-AFgio] [-a article] [-n newsgroup] [-p path] [-R
path]
DESCRIPTION
tdx-util is an administrative interface to the tradindexed
overview method for INN. It only works on tradindexed
overview databases, not on any other type of INN overview.
It allows the administrator to dump various information
about the internal state of the overview, audit it for
errors, and rebuild portions of the overview database.
The tradindexed overview method should lock properly and
therefore it should be safe to run this utility and perform
any operation it performs, including full repairs or per-
group overview rebuilds, while the server is running.
However, note that some of the operations performed by this
utility can take an extended period of time and will hold
locks in the overview database during that period, which
depending on what the server is doing may cause the server
to stall until tdx-util completes its operation.
The dump operations are -g, which dumps the master index for
the overview database, -i, which dumps the index for an
individual group, and -o, which dumps the overview
information for a particular group (including the additional
metadata stored in the index). For -i and -o, the -n option
must also be given to specify a newsgroup to operate on.
To audit the entire overview database for problems, use -A.
Any problems found will be reported to standard error.
There is not (yet) a corresponding option to correct the
errors found.
To rebuild the database for a particular newsgroup, use -R.
The -R option takes a path to a directory which contains all
of the articles for that newsgroup, one per file. The names
of the files must be the numbers of the articles in that
group. (In other words, this directory must be a
traditional spool directory for that group.) The -n option
must also be given to specify the newsgroup for which the
overview is being rebuilt.
For all operations performed by tdx-util, a different
overview database than the one specified in inn.conf may be
specified using the -p option.
OPTIONS
-A Audit the entire overview database for problems. This
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runs the internal consistency checks built into the
tradindexed overview implementation, checking such
things as the validity and reachability of all group
index entries, the format of the individual overview
entries, the correspondance of index entries to overview
data, and similar such things. No changes will be made
to the database, but problems will be reported to
standard error.
-a article
The article number to act on. Only useful in
combination with the -o option to dump overview
information.
-F Audit the entire overview database for problems, fixing
them as they're detected where possible. This runs the
internal consistency checks built into the tradindexed
overview implementation, checking such things as the
validity and reachability of all group index entries,
the format of the individual overview entries, the
correspondance of index entries to overview data, and
similar such things. The strategy used when fixing
problems is to throw away data that's unrecoverable, so
be warned that using this option may result in
inaccessible articles if their overview data has been
corrupted.
To see what would be changed by -F, run tdx-util with -A
first.
-g Dump the master index of the overview database. This
contains similar information to the server active file,
such as high and low water marks and moderation status,
and is the information that nnrpd hands out to clients.
The fields are, in order, the newsgroup name, the high
water mark, the low water mark, the base article number
(the point at which the group index begins), the count
of articles in the group, the group status flag, the
time (in seconds since epoch) when that newsgroup was
deleted or 0 if it hasn't been, and the inode of the
index file for that group.
-i Dump the index of a particular group. The fields are,
in order, the article number, the offset of the data for
that article in the overview data file for that group,
the length of the overview data, the time (in seconds
since epoch) when the article arrived on the server, the
time (in seconds since epoch) when the article should
expire based on its Expires header (or 0 if there is no
Expires header), and the storage API token of the
article.
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If this option is given, the -n option must also be
given to specify the newsgroup on which to act.
-n newsgroup
Specify the newsgroup on which to act, required for the
-i, -o, and -R options.
-o Dump the overview information for a newsgroup, in the
same format as it would be returned to clients but with
one modification. Appended to the end of each entry
will be four additional pieces of data: the article
number according to the index file for that group, the
storage API token for that article, the arrival date for
that article on the server in RFC 822 date format, and
the expiration date for that article (from the Expires
header) in RFC 822 date format if there is any.
If this option is given, the -n option must also be
given to specify the newsgroup on which to act. By
default, all of the overview information for that
newsgroup is dumped, but the -a option may be given to
restrict the dump to the information for a single
article.
-p path
Act on the overview database rooted in path, overriding
the overview path specified in inn.conf.
-R path
Rebuild the overview for a given group from the articles
stored in path. The articles must be in the form of a
traditional spool directory; in other words, each
article must be in a separate file and the name of the
file must match the article number of the article.
If this option is given, the -n option must also be
given to specify the newsgroup on which to act.
EXAMPLES
Dump the master index for the overview database in
/news/overview, regardless of the overview path specified in
inn.conf:
tdx-util -g -p /news/overview
Dump the group index for example.test:
tdx-util -i -n example.test
Dump the complete overview information for example.test:
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tdx-util -o -n example.test
Audit the entire overview database for any problems:
tdx-util -A
Rebuild the overview information for example.test from a
traditional spool directory:
tdx-util -R /news/spool/articles/example/test -n example.test
The last command may be useful for recovering from a bad
crash or corrupted overview information for a particular
group, if you are also using the tradspool article storage
method.
HISTORY
Written by Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> for InterNetNews.
$Id: tdx-util.8,v 1.2 2002/08/31 00:53:48 rra Exp $
SEE ALSO
makehistory(8)
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-----Original Message-----
From: inn-workers-bounce at isc.org [mailto:inn-workers-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Russ Allbery
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:08 PM
To: inn-workers at isc.org
Subject: Re: news reader cannot see articles
Howard Yuen <howard.yuen at tumbleweed.com> writes:
> Looks like you hit something.....I got nothing in return!
> # ./tdx-util -g -n weed.pso.paypal
> #
Okay, create an entry for this group with:
tdx-util -c -n weed.pso.paypal -f y -a 1-50
replacing the "y" with "m" if the group is moderated and replacing
"1-50"
with the actual range of article numbers in the group.
Then run:
tdx-util -R /News/articles/weed/pso/paypal -n weed.pso.paypal
again. You'll probably still get complaints about missing history
entries, but this may fix it.
The interesting question is why ctlinnd newgroup didn't create overview
for the group....
--
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)
<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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