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kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) writes:

>In article <675@anagld.UUCP> rcsmith@anagld.UUCP (Ray Smith) writes:

>   Path: kannel!tut!draken!kth!mcvax!uunet!lll-winken!ames!haven!aplcen!anagld!rcsmith
>   From: rcsmith@anagld.UUCP (Ray Smith)
>   Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
>   Date: 28 Jun 89 18:41:21 GMT
>   Reply-To: rcsmith@anagld.UUCP (Ray Smith)
>   Organization: Analytics, Inc., Columbia, MD
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>   When the program is run it moves the cursor to the top right corner then
>   after a few seconds the following appears at the bottom of the screen:

>   No News
>   There are still ##### unread articles in ### groups.

>   and the program returns.

>That is exactly what happens on my HP9000/825.

>   I have retraced all of the steps and read through the "PROBLEMS" file
>   several times and don't see anything that would indicate why it doesn't
>   work properly. If someone else has conquered this problem I would love to
>   hear about the solution. I know it must work on the Gould because there a
>   was machine dependent configuration file for a Gould.

>   Any help would be appreciated.
>   -Ray

>I also read PROBLEMS and checked my s-file (I wrote the new one for hpux 3.0)
>and m-file and couldn't get it to work.  Nncheck -t does find a lot of new
>news and also nnadmin finds articles.  In my opinion nnmaster works and nn
>doesn't.

>If someone knows the solution, please, POST it or e-mail to me, too.

>Kim
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The reason 'nn' exits is because the next group in its list is blocked by the
'nnmaster' daemon.  The 'nnmaster' program marks a group as BLOCKED while it
is updating the database for that group.  Did you try to run 'nn' soon after you
started the 'nnmaster' daemon?  If so, 'nn' will generally exit after a couple
of groups (if you are lucky) becasue all the other are BLOCKED by the daemon.
I learnt about this the hard way.  If you want to verify my opinion try running
the program 'nnadmin' and execute a 'Validate' in the first menu and you will
immediately see all the groups that are BLOCKED.  The only way out of this is
to just sit around until the updates are complete (this takes forever in the
first run of NN package), after that it isn't so bad since it is update every
so often (depending on how nnmaster was invoked).  Hope that helps, good luck.



	-Anantha-

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