Re: [leafnode-list] Mass murder

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

Tim McDaniel wrote:

> fetch seems to kill everything it wants to fetch.  The news.=info
> syslogd file I set up has
> 
> Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: comp.lang.perl.moderated: will fetch 6 articles
> Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3458 (65809 > maxbytes)
> Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3459 (65809 > maxbytes)
> Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3460 (65809 > maxbytes)
> Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3461 (65809 > maxbytes)
> Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3462 (65809 > maxbytes)
> Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3463 (65809 > maxbytes)
> Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: comp.lang.perl.moderated: 0 articles fetched (to 104), 6 killed
> 
> I doubt that every article just happens to have 65809 bytes!

>From what I can see these six articles (unfortunately you have only given
two message-IDs) were some kind of spam, because I cannot find them on
any server. Anyway, it appears that this is not a mistake of leafnode,
because the number of 65809 bytes is already returned by the upstream
server:

> Sep 19 23:42:59 tmcd fetch[5457]: >XHDR Bytes 3330-3463^M
> Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <221 Bytes fields follow
> [snip]
> Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3462 65809
> Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3463 65809
> Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <.

> Sep 19 23:42:54 tmcd fetch[5457]: Last LIST ACTIVE done 5700892 seconds ago: NEWGROUPS 
> Sep 19 23:42:55 tmcd fetch[5457]: <200 news-feeds.jump.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.1 25-Aug-1999 ready (posting ok). 
> Sep 19 23:42:55 tmcd fetch[5457]: >MODE READER^M 
> Sep 19 23:42:55 tmcd fetch[5457]: <200 news-feeds.jump.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.1 25-Aug-1999 ready (posting ok). 
> Sep 19 23:42:55 tmcd fetch[5457]: >NEWGROUPS 990920 043500 GMT^M 
> Sep 19 23:42:56 tmcd fetch[5457]: <503 Cannot open newsgroup date file. 
> 
> (Any suggestions as to that?
>     Getting new newsgroups from news2.jump.net
>     Reading new newsgroups failed.
> )

It seems to be a problem on the part of your ISP. If you want to have
a particular new newsgroup, you will have to run "fetch -f" every
now and again because the INN of your ISP is apparently misconfigured
when it says "503 Cannot open newsgroup date file.".

--Cornelius.

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