Re: [leafnode-list] 1.9.11: article numbers (for some groups) have been reset to 2. Help!

["Jeff Grossman" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is a problem that was found in 1.9.11.  It is fixed in the 1.9.12
release.

Jeff
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Jeff Grossman (jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Mackenzie" <acm@xxxxxx>
To: <leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 4:56 AM
Subject: [leafnode-list] 1.9.11: article numbers (for some groups) have been
reset to 2. Help!


> To access Usenet, I am running Leafnode-1.9.11 and tin-1.4.0 on a Linux
> system. I don't run texpire (I'm working on a program to enable me to
> remove unwanted articles regardless of their age :-), so some of my spool
> directories have many thousand articles in them, the largest currently
> having 14663 articles.
>
> On Monday (3rd April) when I started "fetchnews -vvv" as usual:
>
> (i) It reported "Getting all newsgroups from <servername>", and took some
> time downloading the list of newsgroups. Presumably this was triggered by
> the "timeout_active = 90" setting in the config file;
>
> (ii) Whilst fetching articles from each of the FIRST THREE (out of six)
> currently active newsgroups, several thousand spurious messages were
> output like this:
>
>
> ..as article 1093 in <newsgroup>
> ..as article 1094 in <newsgroup>
> ..as article 1095 in <newsgroup>
>
> and so on, with increasing article number. I am not sure what the first
> such spurious article number was, nor the last such number. I believe
> that those number were the same as the the article numbers currently in
> my spool;
>
> (iii) The articles which were fetched for each of these three newsgroups
> were given article numbers 2, 3, 4, ...... rather than the expected
> 15302, 15303, ....etc.;
>
> (iv) Articles from the other three active groups were read normally.
>
> I have run fetchnews several times since this happened. In the three
> affected groups, the article numbers being given to new articles continue
> to increment from the very low numbers (43, 44, 45,....) rather than
> being given the correct numbers (15302, 15303, ....).
>
> tin doesn't mark these articles as unread, which is inconvenient.
>
> QUESTIONS: What is going to happen when the increasing article numbers
> (43, 44, 45, ....) collide with existing articles? In one group, the
> lowest article number is around 150 :-(
>
> Is there some quick fix I can do to set the current article number back
> to what it should be?
>
> Many thanks in advance for the help!
>
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> Alan Mackenzie (München)
> acm@xxxxxx
>
>
>
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