Problem with himark, buffindexed and control.cancel

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hola Martín:

> For some reason, when a cancel message gets fed to the one that serves
> as archive, I get this error:
>
> innd: tradspool: could not open
> /var/spool/news/articles/control/cancel/19206 File exists
>
> I've already taken a look at this:
>
> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S4.4
>
> I re-created the overview files (we use the buffindexed method) and
> re-ran "makehistory -O -F", but I'm still having this problem (it took
> about 12 hours to rebuild).

What is the size of your buffindexed files?  (Issues with buffindexed 
files whose size is larger than 2 GB are reported with INN < 2.5.0.)

Did you run ctlinnd renumber ''?

Did you try to run "scanspool -v -n"?



> The weird thing is that, if I look at /var/lib/news/active, this is
> what I get, which seems to be correct:
>
> control.cancel 0000035072 0000000001 n
>
> That is, we have ~35K files that go up to that number, and it should
> be OK if it assigned that ID (ie, 35073), but, *for* *some* *reason*,
> it gets assigned 19206, and I don't know where is inn getting 19206
> from really... I'm also having this problem with other two regular
> newsgroups...

Is it also exactly 19206 for these two other newsgroups?

Do you use xrefslave (an inn.conf parameter) in your second server (the 
one that archives your articles)?
What number do these articles have in your first server?

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Julien ÉLIE

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