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[Russ Allbery]

Howard Yuen <howard.yuen at tumbleweed.com> writes:

> Yes, it does.

> # /usr/local/news/bin/tdx-util -o -n weed.pso.paypal
> 1       Test news article       howard.yuen at tumbleweed.com ("Howard
> Yuen")      Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:43:33 -0800
> <371D08BFE354B24AAF56B7EED3412290045F9B3B at RWCEXVS01.corp.tumbleweed.com>
> 1296    2       Xref: tumbleweed.com weed.pso.paypal:1  Article: 1
> Token: @0501000000EE000000010000000000000000@   Arrived: Fri, 26 Jan
> 2007 22:43:34 -0800 (PST)
> #  

>> 200 tumbleweed.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1 ready (posting 
>> ok).
>> group weed.pso.paypal
>> 211 1 1 1 weed.pso.paypal
>> xover 1-
>> 224 1- fields follow
>> .
>> article 1
>> 423 Bad article number

Okay, I'm becoming more and more convinced that something fundamental is
wrong here, although I don't know what.  I don't see how else to explain
the behavior that you're seeing, where the overview is present and working
correctly, the active file is correct, innd is writing data to overview
without any trouble, nnrpd is seeing the right article count, and yet it
can't read the actual overview data.

There's some sort of subtle permissions problem here (like the
subdirectories in your overview spool not being readable by nnrpd), or
there's something broken in the operating system (mmap support or
something), or nnrpd and tdx-util are expecting different on-disk data
formats, or there's something else really fundamental that's wrong.

With this sort of result, I'm not convinced that rebuilding everything is
actually going to help.  According to the above, all the data is already
there; rebuilding isn't going to create any better overview than what you
already have.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>