[leafnode-list] A new articles problem

[Rodrigo Reyes <reyes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

 I am meeting an odd problem with leafnode 1.9.14. I am using linux
 Mandrake 7.1 with glibc 2.1.2.

 The first fetchnews works correctly, it fetches all the
 newsgroups. Then I select some newsgroups, fetch them, nothing wrong
 until there.

 At that point, when I fetch new news on a newsgroup I have already
 fetched, fetchnews works correctly, but no new message appears in the
 news reader. After some time and some other tests using fetchnews, I
 can see /some/ articles of /some/ newsgroups (but not all) appear,
 while other newsgroups appear like not having new newsgroups. I'll
 try to show that (but it does not seem deterministic, which make it
 hard to describe).

 I'll take the newsgroup fr.misc.droit as an example. The first fetch
 for that newsgroup gave 21 articles. I used fetchnews many times to
 retrieve new article, and while it seemed to work, no new articles
 appeared. At that point, the content of my
 /var/spool/news/fr/misc/droit/ directory was:

[root@brocoli droit]# ls
10  12  14  16  18  2   21  23  25  27  29  30  32  34  5  7  9
11  13  15  17  19  20  22  24  26  28  3   31  33  4   6  8  internet/

 However, at the same time, if I telnet the newsserver :

[root@brocoli droit]# telnet localhost nntp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.14 running at brocoli.charabia.net
group fr.misc.droit
211 22 1 22 fr.misc.droit group selected
^]
telnet> quit

 So there is a problem there : 33 article (2 to 34) in the spool, but
 1-22 seen.

 Then I activated the syslog debugging messages, and fetched another
 time with fetchnews. Here comes an excerpt of the syslog debug
 messages :

Jul 22 14:12:06 brocoli fetchnews[1679]: reading XOVER info from /var/spool/news/fr/misc/droit/35
Jul 22 14:12:06 brocoli fetchnews[1679]: updated 1 lines in /var/spool/news/fr/misc/droit/.overview 

 So, it seems to work correctly, one message was retrieved and written
 in the .overview file. I check the new content of the var spool dir:

[root@brocoli droit]# ls  
10  12  14  16  18  2   21  23  25  27  29  30  32  34  4  6  8  internet/
11  13  15  17  19  20  22  24  26  28  3   31  33  35  5  7  9

 After using many newsreader, to check that, I telneted again and had
 exactly the same results as before : 1-22 articles.

 While writing this article, I telneted again, and then it worked
 correctly :

[root@brocoli droit]# telnet localhost nntp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.14 running at brocoli.charabia.net
group fr.misc.droit
211 35 1 35 fr.misc.droit group selected
 
 Ok, so the articles of that group, at least, appeared. But some other
 groups stay out of new news articles. That's particularly odd !

 Has anyone an idea of what is happening ? The first time it did that,
 I looked for some permission problem, but found nothing. Then I
 simply mv /var/spool/news to /var/spool/news.old and did a new "make
 install" so that the installation script could install a sane spool
 base, but it did not fix anything, as the problem came back again.

 Has anyone an idea ?

-- 
Rodrigo
Génération automatique de textes : http://www.charabia.net

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