On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:23:40PM +0200, abaxx@lsweb.de wrote: > Hi there, > > after upgrading from INN 2.2 to INN 2.3.3 I followed the directions in > the NEWS file and rebuilt the base history file: > /usr/lib/news/bin/makehistory -b -O -l 30000 > > Then I issued the command for rebuilding the group overviews: > /usr/lib/news/bin/makedbz -s `wc -l < history` > The history.* files were appropriately renamed omitting the ".n" > afterwards. > > If I now restart INN, news clients like tin do see the newsgroups > but not the postings in there. Finally I did try running > /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily delayrm noexpireover > but that did not seem to remedy the situation... > > New posts do appear. Well, here's some additional information, as requested: There is no error message whatsoever in the logs apart from shutdown, startup and connect messages and a complaint about newsfeed: Jul 9 09:26:33 support innd: SERVER bad_newsfeeds no feeding sites The latter should be o.k. for a local news server without any external feeds, I presume ? What I do find quite interesting is the fact, that in expire.log the lost articles do actually appear but not in the news reader: expireover start Tue Jul 9 04:15:21 CEST 2002: ( -z/var/log/news/expire.rm -Z/var/log/news/expire.lowmark) Article lines processed 1 Articles dropped 0 Overview index dropped 0 expireover end Tue Jul 9 04:15:21 CEST 2002 lowmarkrenumber begin Tue Jul 9 04:15:21 CEST 2002: (/var/log/news/expire.lowmark) lowmarkrenumber end Tue Jul 9 04:15:22 CEST 2002 expire begin Tue Jul 9 04:15:52 CEST 2002: (-v1) Article lines processed 457 Articles retained 457 Entries expired 0 Old entries dropped 0 Old entries retained 0 expire end Tue Jul 9 04:15:52 CEST 2002 all done Tue Jul 9 04:15:52 CEST 2002 When looking at the active file, it appeared to me that the entries are all of the type: junk 0000000002 0000000003 y which should indicate that no articles are available in that group according to the man page. Thus I experimented with setting the lomark to 0000000001 to reenable the postings but that did not help either. What is the format of tradspool.map, by the way - there seems to be no man page for it ? My strong hunch is that something goes wrong with makehistory and makedbz, as only empty overview dat and idx files seem to be written to /var/spool/news/overview. The Overview method is tradindexed as can be seen from inn.conf (pretty much the standard one in Debian 3.0): ## $Id: inn.conf.in,v 1.41.2.1 2000/07/17 06:46:17 rra Exp $ ## ## inn.conf -- INN configuration data ## ## Format: ## : ## ## Blank values are allowed for certain parameters. ## ## See the inn.conf(5) man page for a full description of each of these ## options. This sample file is divided into two sections; first, there ## are the parameters that must be set (or should be set in nearly all ## cases), and then all parameters are given with their defaults for ## reference in the same order and with the same organization as the ## inn.conf(5) documentation. # # The parser for this file doesn't deal well with tabs after a value. # # The following parameters are most likely to need setting, although the # defaults generated by configure may be reasonable. mta: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -oem %s organization: *** ovmethod: tradindexed pathhost: support pathnews: /usr/lib/news # General Settings domain: *** innflags: mailcmd: /usr/lib/news/bin/innmail server: localhost # Feed Configuration artcutoff: 10 bindaddress: hiscachesize: 0 ignorenewsgroups: false immediatecancel: false linecountfuzz: 0 maxartsize: 1000000 maxconnections: 50 pathalias: *** pgpverify: false port: 119 refusecybercancels: false remembertrash: true sourceaddress: usecontrolchan: false verifycancels: false wanttrash: false wipcheck: 5 wipexpire: 10 # Article Storage cnfscheckfudgesize: 0 enableoverview: true groupbaseexpiry: true mergetogroups: false overcachesize: 15 ovgrouppat: storeonxref: false useoverchan: false wireformat: false xrefslave: false # Reading allownewnews: true articlemmap: false clienttimeout: 600 nnrpdcheckart: true nnrpperlauth: false nnrppythonauth: false noreader: false readerswhenstopped: false readertrack: false # Reading -- Keyword Support # # Enabling this without stopping innd and deleting the existing overview # database and adding will probably confuse a lot of things. You must # have compiled this support in too. keywords: false keyartlimit: 100000 keylimit: 512 keymaxwords: 250 # Posting addnntppostingdate: true addnntppostinghost: true checkincludedtext: false complaints: *** fromhost: *** localmaxartsize: 1000000 moderatormailer: *** nnrpdauthsender: false nnrpdposthost: nnrpdpostport: 119 spoolfirst: false strippostcc: false # Posting -- Exponential Backoff backoffauth: false backoffdb: backoffk: 1 backoffpostfast: 0 backoffpostslow: 1 backofftrigger: 10000 # Monitoring doinnwatch: true innwatchbatchspace: 800 innwatchlibspace: 25000 innwatchloload: 1000 innwatchhiload: 2000 innwatchpauseload: 1500 innwatchsleeptime: 600 innwatchspoolnodes: 200 innwatchspoolspace: 8000 # Logging docnfsstat: false logartsize: true logcancelcomm: false logcycles: 3 logipaddr: true logsitename: true nnrpdoverstats: false nntpactsync: 200 nntplinklog: false status: 0 timer: 0 # System Tuning badiocount: 5 blockbackoff: 120 chaninacttime: 600 chanretrytime: 300 icdsynccount: 10 maxforks: 10 nicekids: 4 nicenewnews: 0 nicennrpd: 0 pauseretrytime: 300 peertimeout: 3600 rlimitnofile: -1 # Paths patharchive: /var/spool/news/archive patharticles: /var/spool/news/articles pathbin: /usr/lib/news/bin pathcontrol: /usr/lib/news/bin/control pathdb: /var/lib/news pathetc: /etc/news pathfilter: /etc/news/filter pathhttp: /var/log/news pathincoming: /var/spool/news/incoming pathlog: /var/log/news pathoutgoing: /var/spool/news/outgoing pathoverview: /var/spool/news/overview pathrun: /var/run/news pathspool: /var/spool/news pathtmp: /var/spool/news/incoming/tmp Regards, -- /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Stuttgart, Germany ( \/ __)_ Physicist & Tech. 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