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From: jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.questions,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN problems! Corrupting files
Date: 26 Apr 1996 22:00:25 -0500
Organization: Communications Centre (+1 316 367 8490)
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Does anybody know a workaround to this bug? Is there a home page for INN
somewhere that I could check to get details on avoiding this problem? BTW,
I did add new groups recently.
Thanks!
[this thread now crossposted to news.software.nntp -- but please make
sure your followups get into comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc -- thanks]
Martin Jangowski (maja@birdland.rhein-neckar.de) wrote:
: John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org) wrote:
: : Hi,
:
: : For the past several days, INN has been corrupting the active file. It is
: : not destroying any data, simply appending large numbers of nulls to the end
: : of it, which is confusing Tin and other newsreaders.
:
: : I have throttled the server, edited the nulls out of the active file, and
: : resumed it. It seems to be a temporary solution as the problem will
: : reappear in a few hours.
:
: This is a known bug in INN, it happens when your server is throttled and
: you are using "ctlinnd newgroup" or "ctlinnd rmgroup" (I can't remember which
: one). The result is a thrashed active. It has nothing to do with the OS.
:
: Martin
:
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