home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!optimla!walter
- From: walter@optimla.aimla.com (Walter Hunt)
- Subject: Re: C news seems to be creating dups
- Message-ID: <BzqEBM.5p8@optimla.aimla.com>
- Sender: walter@optimla (Walter Hunt)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: galena
- Organization: OptImage Interactive Services Co., L.P.
- References: <Bzn0Gp.266@optimla.aimla.com> <1h7bn6INN4ea@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> <Bzo4xL.6FI@world.std.com> <BzoJpx.Fz8@optimla.aimla.com> <BzooJF.IE8@world.std.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:28:33 GMT
- Lines: 55
-
- In article <BzooJF.IE8@world.std.com>, geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:
- |> Walter Hunt:
- |> > Well, that's all fine and good, but it is NOT the problem I'm having.
- |>
- |> I didn't say it was.
- |>
- |> >This is multiple copies of the same article with the same Message-ID, not
- |> >crossposted, and all having in common the fact that they are in the heirarchies
- |> >I currently get from both newsfeeds.
- |>
- |> Something is broken, probably your history file or its indices. (Have
- |> you looked in errlog and the usenet mail box?) The brute force approach
- |> to fixing history and its indices is to run mkhistory; you might first
- |> want to try just rebuilding the dbz files by running locknews as the
- |> "news" userid and then running "cd /usr/lib/news; dbz history".
- |>
- |> (If you're on a 386, make absolutely certain that dbz.c got compiled
- |> *without* -O.)
- |> --
- |> Geoff Collyer world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff
- |>
- |> ``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group
-
-
- Okay, now that you've pointed some places to check:
-
- 1. I run expires by doing "doexpire -s -r ; mkhistory"; this seems to
- have lower disk overhead, and I am REALLY cramped for space. The side effect of
- this is that (I believe) any problem with the history file should disappear as
- soon as the next expire is run. Anything I'm missing here?
-
- 2. Running dbz results in an error:
-
- /usr/local/bin/cnews/dbz: (file `history', line 809) `....' already present
-
- I guess this means that when dups get created and put in the history
- file, it will hose dbz. I would also guess that mkhistory wouldn't necessarily
- catch this. Any chance putting a "| uniq" in the mkhistory pipeline might clear
- this up?
-
- 3. No mail messages are sent to "usenet". No messages are logged to the
- error log.
-
- My current guess would be that somehow a dup got created, (perhaps
- between expire and mkhistory?) and that ever since, the news system has been
- unable to create a valid history file. Does this sound possible? I'm going to
- try running uniq on the history file, and creating new dbz files from that and
- see what happens.
-
-
- --
- Walter Hunt walter@optimla.optimage.com
- OptImage Interactive Services Company, L.P. walter@optimla.aimla.com
- 11040 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite #300 netcom!optimla!walter
- Los Angeles, Ca. 90025 (310) 445-5718
-