ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef) (01/31/89)
One of the newsgroups at our site reached its numerical end (99999) this week, and it started at article number 2 again. So far so good. But when I had another look at its spool directory, things weren't running the way one would expect. We're running B-2.11.14 news. The name of the newsgroup is 'junk', which, sort of, describes what is happening in its spool directory. (Rubbish.) First, let us have a look at the active file: $ grep junk $LIBDIR/active junk 00111 00159 y $ ls -ltr # Now let's have a look at /usr/spool/news/junk: total 2670 # Keeping it short: displaying only 20 lines. -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 3286 Mar 25 1988 41774 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 3716 Sep 9 19:02 70329 [deleted] : [list of 57 files] -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 7354 Jan 27 03:34 99814 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 6010 Jan 27 19:50 159 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 2695 Jan 27 19:51 161 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1762 Jan 27 19:51 162 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 3524 Jan 29 01:33 99927 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 2527 Jan 29 02:22 99984 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 3958 Jan 29 02:22 99986 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 3207 Jan 29 02:22 99987 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1137 Jan 30 00:48 426 [deleted] : [list of 209 files] -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1727 Jan 30 02:59 636 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 755 Jan 30 18:52 99988 [deleted] : [list of 10 files] -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1813 Jan 30 18:56 99999 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 2511 Jan 30 18:59 2 [deleted] : [list of 108 files] -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 2032 Jan 30 20:04 111 Using rn, things don't go well, as well: |Warning! Somebody reset junk--assuming nothing read. |Checking out your .newsrc--hang on a second... | |******** 111 unread articles in junk--read now? [ynq] <typing 'y'> | |******** 4 unread articles in sci.math--read now? [ynq] <-> |******** 0 unread articles in junk--read now? [ynq] <=> | |******** 4 unread articles in sci.math--read now? [ynq] <g junk> |******** 0 unread articles in junk--read now? [ynq] well, and so on. Trying to read ng junk, restarting rn with a brand new .newsrc $ HOME=/tmp rn doesn't help, nor does 'readnews -x -n junk'. What's more, a newsgroup that 'wraps around' its numbering is resetting the active file every now and then. NB. ng 'junk' gets expired after one day. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? I hope I was clear enough; it is late again, again.
ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef) (01/31/89)
In my previous article <1236@rivm05.UUCP> I wrote: >$ grep junk $LIBDIR/active >junk 00111 00159 y Half a day later the result is: junk 00201 00159 y and article-numbers 112 through 201, except 159(already in use), were added.