jude@nas.nasa.gov (Jude A. George) (08/30/90)
I have just set up an NNTP server. Occasionally when I attempt to post (using rn) from a machine other than the server machine, dozens of additional nntpd and inews processes are forked on the server. This only happens when I actually try to post an article; when rn is first started up, there is only the usual 1 nntpd process. Perhaps the problem is with my inetd.conf? The entry looks like this: nntp stream tcp nowait root /etc/nntpd nntpd A netstat seems to indicate that all of the extra nntpd's are connecting to *themselves*: tcp 0 0 nameserver.nntp nameserver.2256 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 nameserver.2256 nameserver.nntp ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 nameserver.nntp nameserver.2255 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 nameserver.2255 nameserver.nntp ESTABLISHED etc. I don't think the problem is with rn, since the other machines are using the same version of rn as the server. The server is running on a Sun 4 with SunOS 4.0.3. It was not compiled with the ALONE flag. Has anyone had problems similar to this? :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::/::::::::::::::::::::::::::::/::::::::::::::: ::::::::Jude:Anand:George:::::%\/:::::jude@nas.nasa.gov::::%\/:::::::::::::: ::::::::grenade:anode:jug:::::\/\::::::/\:/\::::::/\:::::::\/\:::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\::::::/ / \/\::/ \:/\::::\:::::::::::::::
winans@sirius.mcs.anl.gov (John Winans) (09/04/90)
In article <1990Aug29.180822.10876@nas.nasa.gov> jude@nas.nasa.gov (Jude A. George) writes: >I have just set up an NNTP server. Occasionally when I attempt to post >(using rn) from a machine other than the server machine, dozens of >additional nntpd and inews processes are forked on the server. This only >happens when I actually try to post an article; when rn is first started up, >there is only the usual 1 nntpd process. > >I don't think the problem is with rn, since the other machines are using >the same version of rn as the server. > >The server is running on a Sun 4 with SunOS 4.0.3. It was not compiled >with the ALONE flag. Has anyone had problems similar to this? Not that I'd ever want to admit ;-) NNTP is running the remote version of inews on your server (as in mini-inews) instead of the "honest-to-god real inews". It is either in your common/conf.h file in the nntp source, that you specified the wrong path name to the real inews (see the README file under common), or you simply put the wrong version of inews where you were *planning* on putting the full version. If this makes no sense to you, look at the version of inews that comes with rn and the version that comes with nntp. -- ! John Winans Advanced Computing Research Facility ! ! winans@mcs.anl.gov Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois ! ! ! ! The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away -- Tom Waite !