Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:25:37 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema <john@packfish.gateway.net.hk> To: Martin Jangowski <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN 1.5.1 - symlink problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970422101957.3766A-100000@packfish.gateway.net.hk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.970421065254.3881A-100000@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>
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This can be caused by a corrupted history file. Use the utilities to
check the integrity of the files and repair or restore. Make history
does not necessarily fix everything. By the way make sure you stop
innd before running makehistory -- it can cause the corruption. It is not a
fault of INNd.
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jbeukema
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Martin Jangowski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> A few days ago, I switched our main news machine from 1.4.unoff4 to 1.5.1
> (straight from the -stable ports). I'm noticing lots of errlog-entries
> like
>
> Apr 21 03:19:22 birdland innd: SERVER cant symlink /var/news/soc/women/161436 and alt/women/attitudes/7462 File exists
> Apr 21 03:25:04 birdland innd: SERVER cant symlink /var/news/microsoft/public/frontpage/client/24917 and microsoft/public/frontpage/extensions/windowsnt/2041 File exists
> Apr 21 03:30:17 birdland innd: SERVER cant symlink /var/news/alt/slack/106031 and alt/fan/tito/2127 File exists
> Apr 21 03:32:22 birdland innd: SERVER cant symlink /var/news/comp/security/unix/32208 and comp/unix/admin/43142 File exists
> Apr 21 03:35:35 birdland innd: SERVER cant symlink /var/news/aus/computers/mac/14873 and alt/sys/mac/newuser-help/2172 File exists
> Apr 21 03:35:48 birdland innd: SERVER cant symlink /var/news/aus/flame/46620 and alt/usa-sucks/4356 File exists
> Apr 21 03:56:16 birdland innd: SERVER cant symlink /var/news/rec/arts/movies/lists+surveys/14335 and alt/tv/seinfeld/50914 File exists
> Apr 21 03:59:13 birdland innd: SERVER cant symlink /var/news/misc/entrepreneurs/248478 and market/internet/free/14806 File exists
> Apr 21 03:59:13 birdland innd: SERVER throttle File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
> Apr 21 03:59:13 birdland innd: SERVER cant write history <5jdm5g$k1o@bolivia.earthlink.net> Cross-device link
>
> Our newsspool spans several file systems, they are all linked via symlinks
> to /var/news (like /var/news/rec -> /disk3/var.news.rec). I'm running
> 2.1.7.1 and just exhausted my pool of ideas... makehistory -bunv runs
> regularly (about once per month), the permissions seem to be all right.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Martin
>
>
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