nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) (09/21/88)
Let me first describe our system:
Software: B News 2.11.14, NNTP 1.5
Hardware: Sun 4/260
Now, the problem:
Lately, I've been getting strange errors that aren't logged
as errors in errlog. Specifically, I get between 4 and 40 messages
that couldn't be installed. Also, I occasionally run across articles
that have been garbled very badly with no mention of an error in any
log. This garbling is very regular, consisting of the repeated string
"^P^Krn^P^Krn" for greater than 24 lines (I haven't read through
all the way :-). This has happend on both locally posted news and
inbound news. Our system is set up such that this machine (paris)
is the central news server for the department with the news library and
spool being shared among all of our suns via NFS. We were having
problems with lockd dying on us, so I recompiled inews with flock
instead of lockf, but the problems seem to persist. Only paris
accesses any of the news files (library, spool, etc.) for write
access, so flock should be OK. We receive all news from a single
feed elsewhere on campus. That feed does not garble articles,
so I'm fairly sure the problem is with our inews or nntp programs.
If anybody else has run across problems like this, could you please
let me know how to fix it? If not, I'm open to suggestions.
Mark
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Mark Nagel
Department of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
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