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[leafnode-list] leafnode is not pulling in any news
I am running leafnode 1.9.41-1 on Debian GNU/linux testing system,
with pan 0.13.0-4 and a dialup account to earthlink.
It seems not to be pulling in any new articles or headers, though it
was a few weeks ago (erratically). I am looking for help in how to
diagnose the problem, since I've run into a number of peculiarities.
1) The FAQ says to check permissions on /var/spool/news. This is a
symlink to somewhere else. It and the files under are user/group
news. Could the symlink be causing trouble?
2) The FAQ also says " 1. Your groupinfo file is corrupt. Restart
fetchnews with the -f parameter". When I try to do this, I get the
error
#su news -c "/usr/sbin/fetchnews -f -v -v"
leafnode 1.9.41.rel: verbosity level is 2
try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="wheat.dslnorthwest.net"
Cannot obtain lock file, aborting.
(same result when did it directly as root). I don't see anything for
fetchnews in /var/lock, though there is an entry for leafnode. I
tried this while dialed up (when fetchnews should be running) and when
disconnected (when it shouldn't).
The groupinfo file is large, and dated a day before my last messages
were retrieved--suspicious.
3) I enabled logging, and all I see is this:
Jul 1 23:58:03 wheat fetchnews[3018]: leafnode 1.9.41.rel: verbosity level is 0
Jul 1 23:58:03 wheat fetchnews[3018]: config: debugmode is 1
Jul 1 23:58:03 wheat fetchnews[3018]: config: expire is 20 days
Jul 1 23:58:03 wheat fetchnews[3018]: config: found username for news.earthlink.net
Jul 1 23:58:03 wheat fetchnews[3018]: config: found password for news.earthlink.net
Jul 1 23:58:03 wheat fetchnews[3018]: config: maxage is 30
Jul 1 23:58:03 wheat fetchnews[3018]: try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="wheat.dslnorthwest.net"
Is this normal?
4) I notice my interesting.groups subdirectory has no entries dated
more recently than June 25, despite my trying to access the groups
through pan. For example, this log output makes me think it should be
more recent (and also suggests that pan is communicating the interest
in the group alright):
Jul 1 23:26:54 wheat leafnode[2791]: config: debugmode is 1
Jul 1 23:26:54 wheat leafnode[2791]: config: expire is 20 days
Jul 1 23:26:54 wheat leafnode[2791]: config: found username for news.earthlink.net
Jul 1 23:26:54 wheat leafnode[2791]: config: found password for news.earthlink.net
Jul 1 23:26:54 wheat leafnode[2791]: config: maxage is 30
Jul 1 23:26:54 wheat leafnode[2791]: connect from localhost (127.0.0.1) to localhost (127.0.0.1) (my fqdn: wheat.dslnorthwest.net)
Jul 1 23:26:54 wheat leafnode[2791]: rereading /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo
Jul 1 23:26:55 wheat leafnode[2791]: <MODE READER
Jul 1 23:26:55 wheat leafnode[2791]: >200 Leafnode 1.9.41.rel, pleased to meet you!
Jul 1 23:26:55 wheat leafnode[2791]: <GROUP comp.lang.postscript
Jul 1 23:26:55 wheat leafnode[2791]: >211 140 2 141 comp.lang.postscript group selected
Jul 1 23:26:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: <ARTICLE 139
Jul 1 23:26:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: markinterest: comp.lang.postscript touched
Jul 1 23:26:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: >220 139 <421ab8b7.0306101758.6948bf7c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> article retrieved - text follows
Jul 1 23:27:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: <MODE READER
Jul 1 23:27:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: >200 Leafnode 1.9.41.rel, pleased to meet you!
Jul 1 23:28:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: <MODE READER
Jul 1 23:28:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: >200 Leafnode 1.9.41.rel, pleased to meet you!
Jul 1 23:29:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: <MODE READER
Jul 1 23:29:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: >200 Leafnode 1.9.41.rel, pleased to meet you!
Jul 1 23:30:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: <QUIT
Jul 1 23:30:59 wheat leafnode[2791]: >205 Always happy to serve!
5) I have a firewall. Perhaps it is blocking traffic?
However, when I point pan directly at the earthlink news server, I am
able to access it.
That's probably more than enough for now. If someone with more
experience could tell me what all this means, and where I should look
next, I'd really appreciat it.
Thanks.
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