innfeed question

[Alexander Bartolich]

The Doctor wrote:
> Right innfeed was not passing the news articles through.
> [....]
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.uunet.ca:0 connected
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.uunet.ca remote MODE STREAM
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.albasani.net:0 connected
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.albasani.net remote MODE STREAM
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: newsfeeder.dynfx.net:0 connected
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: newsfeeder.dynfx.net remote MODE STREAM
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.buerger.net:0 connected
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.buerger.net remote MODE STREAM
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: feeder.erje.net:0 connected
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: feeder.erje.net remote MODE STREAM
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.hub.org:0 connected
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:38:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.hub.org remote MODE STREAM
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:48:37 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.uunet.ca checkpoint seconds 600 offered 0 accepted 0 refused 0 rejected 0 missing 0 accsize 0 rejsize 0 spooled 0 on_close 0 unspooled 0 deferred 0/0.0 requeued 0 queue 0.0/200:100,0,0,0,0,0
> /var/log/news/news.notice:Nov  5 08:48:38 gallifrey doctor[3]: innfeed[16927]: news.uunet.ca:0 idle tearing down connection

Well, you are looking into the wrong file.
The propagation of articles is logged to /var/log/news/news.

Anyway, interesting list of peers you have there. :-)
Since I did not know news.hub.org I checked it's website and found an innreport ...

http://news.hub.org/innreport/news-notice.2007.11.03-23.59.02.html
# Unknown entries from news log file:
# [...]
# Nov 4 07:11:41 news ovdb_monitor[1669]: OVDB: write: 0x28bd9f58, 16301: No space left on device
# Nov 4 07:11:41 news ovdb_monitor[1669]: OVDB: txn_checkpoint: failure in memp_sync No space left on device
# Nov 4 07:11:41 news ovdb_monitor[1669]: OVDB: txn_checkpoint: No space left on device

Yikes! But it get's better.

# Incoming Feeds (INN):
#   Server              Connects Offered  Taken
# 1 uucp.nk.ca          162      111087   60480
# 2 news-out.glorb.com  17       32361    19479

I guess in a fair competition it's impossible for your site to overtake glorb.
So you must be sending more hierarchies than agreed.
Which is also a good explanation for the full file system.

> What must I do to correct this?

Well, your news.notice proves that innfeed.conf is correct, i.e. connections are established.
The postings to send over a connection are then configured in /etc/news/newsfeeds

Ciao

    Alexander.