fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) (02/07/91)
Hello,
Of late I have been getting the following mail from expire on our news
server (a Sun 4/490 running SunOS 4.1 and Bnews 2.11):
From: usenet@Ra.MsState.Edu
Date: 7 Feb 91 07:53:26 GMT
To: usenet
Subject: Missing files!
Responding-System: ra.MsState.Edu
System: ra.MsState.Edu
There was a problem with /usr/lib/news/history!!
The problem has been taken care of.
In the errlog at about the time these messages are mailed is the
following message:
Feb 7 01:53 Unknown inews: Cannot open /usr/lib/news/active (r+): No such file or directory
Yet:
ls -l /usr/lib/news/active
-rw-r--r-- 1 usenet 25767 Feb 7 02:35 /usr/lib/news/active
And looking at the text the active file looks fine (it isn't corrupted
or anything that I can see.
News appears to work fine but if two articles with the same message-id
are offered by our two news feeds we seem at least sometimes to accept
both. I'll find to messages in a group that diff reports are
identical (including the message-id). This started at the same time
as the mail messages so I assume they are related.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
FWP
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