sja@ih1ap.UUCP (Steve Alesch) (10/21/86)
Our netnews [active] file broke. We sent the following message to
our local netnews admin.:
>From jfs Thu Oct 16 12:39:23 1986
To: ihlpa!madany
Subject: usenet broken?
Cc: exptools
Status: R
Peter,
We haven't received any netnews for the last few days.
Investigating, I looked in the ~exptools/lib/netnews/errlog file
and found the following:
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.
Oct 16 11:48 <2047@mtgzy.UUCP> inews: ACTIVE file too long
Oct 16 11:48 <971@usl.UUCP> inews: ACTIVE file too long
Oct 16 11:48 <2451@phri.UUCP> inews: ACTIVE file too long
Oct 16 11:48 <762@codas.ATT.COM> inews: ACTIVE file too long
Oct 16 11:48 <200@mgvax.UUCP> inews: ACTIVE file too long
.
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Here is the wc(1) run on our active file, ~exptools/lib/netnews/active:
414 1656 11034 active
Any ideas? Have we hit some static limit on an internal array in
inews() what with the rampant proliferation of newsgroups that is
occurring these days?
Here's a what(1) and ls -l on out copy of ~exptools/lib/netnews/inews:
/lss/exptools/lib/netnews/inews:
inews.c 2.56 6/6/85
ifuncs.c 2.47 6/6/85
iextern.c 2.14 4/16/85
control.c 2.41 6/6/85
fullname.c 1.10 4/16/85
pathinit.c 1.16 4/16/85
funcs.c 2.29 6/6/85
funcs2.c 1.12 6/6/85
header.c 2.37 6/6/85
ndir.c 1.8 4/26/85
ftime.c 2.5 4/26/85
logdir.c 1.4 4/16/85
-rwsrwxr-x 2 exptools exptools 78480 Jan 1 1986 /lss/exptools/lib/netnews/inews
If you have a fix for this will you send it our way?
Thanks,
Jesse Fred Shumway ih1ap!jfs 510-7880
Unfortunately Mr. Madany has neither returned our E-mail or answered
his phone yet. So I decided to live dangerously and I removed all of
the recently added news categories, misc.* and sci.*. This allowed us
to start receiving news again, but we are losing all of the misc.* and
sci.* news. A tail of our [errlog] shows:
Oct 21 08:26 <753@riccb.UUCP> inews: Unknown newsgroup 'sci.physics' removed
Oct 21 08:26 <753@riccb.UUCP> inews: No valid newsgroups found, moved to junk
Oct 21 08:28 <806@pyramid.UUCP> inews: Unknown newsgroup 'misc.consumers' removed
Oct 21 08:28 <806@pyramid.UUCP> inews: No valid newsgroups found, moved to junk
Oct 21 09:04 <1146@kontron.UUCP> inews: Unknown newsgroup 'misc.misc' removed
Oct 21 09:04 <1147@kontron.UUCP> inews: Unknown newsgroup 'misc.misc' removed
I've heard some rumors about the net renaming some of the news
catgories. From what I've seen, my guess is that all of the net.*
categories are being renamed.
Anyway, I either need a fix to the netnews software to allow for a
larger [active] file or some way to clean up my [active] file. I
would think the netnews software could automagically do this, but
if not, I'd appreciate a list of the dead news groups so I could
shorten my [active] file and then re-activate the misc.* and sci.*
news categories.
--
Steve Alesch AT&T
(312)510-7881, ...!ihnp4!ih1ap!sja