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Re: Linux and INND help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Fri May 17 18:43:06 1996
To: "Dave A. Flanigan" <entropy@newreach.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 20:54:45 EDT."
<2.2.32.19960517005445.00679648@newreach.net>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 18:49:09 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> Here is a snapshot from the process trying to send me news:
> This is from MCIs newsfeeder, which feeds thousands of folks...
Get them to remove you from newsfeeds,
kill all nntpsend/sendnntp etc. to your site
remove any stale locks from their news directory
ctlinnd reload newsfeeds "Removed newreach.net"
rm /opt/news/out.going/news.newreach.net*
(add you back into newsfeeds)
ctlinnd reload newsfeeds "Added newreach.net"
I suspect this is actually nothing to do with your system, as I've
seen it happen when a customer has taken their news server off line
for a while. However, you might be provoking them ...
Exactly which process were they tracing on their end? Streaming
or not? Which FDs are what? I don't think this is a trace of the
send process itself (or at least not the bit that's communicating
with you) as it seems to be reading and writing article numbers
(hh/general/2nnnnn etc.) which aren't ever going to get transfered
over NNTP - it must be something internal - some inn process,
shrinkfile, or more likely whatever process is dealing with
clearing up the backlog you created by taking your system off line.
Note the above recommendation vapes your backlog.
Note EGAIN etc. might not actually be errors - for instance you
can use the fact that stat returns ENOENT to check a file
*isnt* there.
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
