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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: INN - overview problem Date: 12 Jun 1996 21:59:11 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4pnejf$8u2@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4pmglf$sut@isis.gsini.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4pmglf$sut@isis.gsini.net>, <jvarsoke@gsi.gsini.net> wrote: > Though this problem is not specifically FreeBSD, that is the machine running >the software. Currently installed is INN 1.4u3. The problem I have is >that a few of the news groups, while read by tin, yeild a very strange error. >when the newsgroup is entered the message BAD Overview Record followed by >what looks like a path of e-mail addresses aproximately 20 lines long. For >several of the higher volume groups this will happen 10 or so times becure I >get the threaded listing of the articles in the group. Other groups have, >perhaps, only one such instance. Most of the feed, however, has no such >problem, and everythign looks fine. As you say, it's not a FreeBSD problem; in fact, it's a problem with tin:- Step 13: If you are running tin (mostly the 1.2 versions) then you will get "bad overview" messages. These don't come from inn, but from tin. Solution edit the source (art.c) to increase the buffer size for overview information from 1024 bytes to at least 4096 bytes. (In case anyone was wondering, that came from the INN FAQ and steps 1-12 were an explanation of how to set up NOV). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG