afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) (09/10/90)
Well, the subject header says it all. I'm running cnews (latest patch 25-may-90) and every night I get some of those can't link messages. The news spool directories and all the articles have news.news owner/group. The specific articles mentioned in the messages are there and have multiple links. Obviously, one particular link that should have been made wasn't, but why? This is what showed up in /usr/lib/news/err* for 3 consecutive nights. Is this caused by something in the incoming articles? relaynews: can't link to `talk/politics/misc/10' relaynews: can't link to `comp/misc/28' relaynews: can't link to `comp/sources/wanted/22' relaynews: can't link to `comp/lang/perl/5' relaynews: can't link to `comp/periphs/2' relaynews: can't link to `comp/misc/12' relaynews: can't link to `comp/dcom/lans/1' relaynews: can't link to `comp/unix/xenix/sco/11' relaynews: can't link to `misc/jobs/misc/60' This is puzzling. Any insight will be welcome. Thanks in advance. Augustine Cano afc@shibaya.lonestar.org
smith@groucho (09/12/90)
In article <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes: >links. Obviously, one particular link that should have been made wasn't, >but why? This is what showed up in /usr/lib/news/err* for 3 consecutive >nights. Is this caused by something in the incoming articles? > >relaynews: can't link to `comp/lang/perl/5' >relaynews: can't link to `comp/periphs/2' > etc... Check the permissions on your news files. Make sure they are owned by news (or whatever serves that function on your machine). Also check control/setnewsids and be sure that it is set uid root. __ | | My employer will disavow any ----------------------------- | | knowledge of my actions. William Smith |. | Microelectronics Research Center \ | University of Idaho / \ Moscow, ID 83843 | \ (208)885-6500 | \ | ---| E-mail: wsmith@groucho.mrc.uidaho.edu | | ---------------------------- | | |----------
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (09/13/90)
In article <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes: >relaynews: can't link to `talk/politics/misc/10' Barring the possibility that your system is strange in some way, the most likely cause is permission problems of some kind. It's an odd problem and it's hard to say much more from the information at hand. -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
haug@almira.uucp (Brian R Haug) (09/19/90)
In article <1990Sep12.190321.18474@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes: >>relaynews: can't link to `talk/politics/misc/10' > >Barring the possibility that your system is strange in some way, the most >likely cause is permission problems of some kind. It's an odd problem and >it's hard to say much more from the information at hand. Another possible problem which I believe I saw running very old Cnews was that the active file had not been updated or had been corrupted. The file talk/politics/misc/10 probably exists, and is the name of the new directory to be created. If I recall properly, running the same batch through again caused duplicate articles to be stored, this of course also created problems for expire since, in this case, talk/politics/misc/10 may not be in the history file. Hope this helps. Share and Enjoy! Brian Haug
laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal) (09/21/90)
In article <1990Sep12.034202.9368@groucho>, smith@groucho writes: >In article <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes: >> >>relaynews: can't link to `comp/periphs/2' >> > > etc... > > Check the permissions on your news files. Make sure they are owned by > news (or whatever serves that function on your machine). Also check > control/setnewsids and be sure that it is set uid root. > Oh, relaynews goes into a loop making sure that either he or setnewsids can su to news. I run my cron unbatchers as su news. I still get the message. I'll debug it sometime, the batches run pretty quickly when I put them in for a second try. I guess a few articles fall through the cracks? I had big problems setting the sticky bit and chowning things root,root! By the way, my shell scripts are starting to resemble vague remnants of their former selves...and while expiring stuff goes by in a comparative flash (10 minutes on a very slow machine for a day of comp and news) it takes relaynews just about forever: is this normal, any clues? I had to use the supplied dbm... -- Laird Heal laird@slum.MV.COM The world is my office. (Salem, NH) +1 603 898 1406 <-----I charge for opinions, though.
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (09/23/90)
In article <1990Sep21.041737.707@slum.MV.COM> laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal) writes: >takes relaynews just about forever: is this normal, any clues? I had >to use the supplied dbm... If you are using the dbm emulation supplied with old C News distributions, you badly need to update to current software. That old emulation was a performance disaster. You should be using either dbz or your system's dbm (if any). -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry