news reader cannot see articles

[Howard Yuen]

Russ,

Thanks for your help.  I will dig around the OS and verify the
permisisons to those directories are correctly set.

Thx,
Howard 

-----Original Message-----
From: inn-workers-bounce at isc.org [mailto:inn-workers-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Russ Allbery
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 11:56 PM
To: inn-workers at isc.org
Subject: Re: news reader cannot see articles

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/>



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