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delphys@cc.mcgill.ca (David Holmes) writes:

>In article <1992Dec16.234239.28269@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>  
>delphys@cc.mcgill.ca (David Holmes) writes:
>> I have a problem with nn6.4.16 running under sunOS 4.1.2 and I'm not  
>> sure where to look for solutions.  Our server is used only to get  
>> articles; the database is local to the other department (with the  
>> problem nn).  In the log files nnadmin reports things like the  
>> following:
>etc etc

>We're also getting times like:

>Notice: nnmaster has not updated database in 201263 hours    ??

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Some helpful soul told me when I had this problem that it was usually caused
by a header with a control character.  He said to edit the header.  Not
possible when you are using a remote NNTPSERVER.  Another helpful person
(Mike O'Connor I believe) suggested that I restart the nnmaster with the bad
newsgroup excluded.  I had trouble figuring out how to isolate the bad
group, but Mike O. also reminded me of the -D switch.  Now whenever I get
the dreaded "nnmaster not updated" error and look in the Log file and find
the error you show,  I kill nnmaster -9, restart it as such:
  nnmaster -r -D > DEBUG.out&
  tail -f DEBUG.out
You can ^C the last (tail) job and wait for nnmaster to bailout and go back
and look at the DEBUG.out to see what the last group was.  You can actually
tell which article it bailed out on.

I kill nnmaster and restart it with the group in question excluded.  There
may be additional ones which you will have to repeat the whole process for.
The syntax for excluding a group in *csh syntax is:
  nnmaster -r \!bad.news.group ""
In *sh you do not need the \ before the !.  It is a pain, but I have not
figured a way around it.  Obviously this has to be done by someone with
execute access on the nnmaster and read on the lib dir.  Since these should
be set to news.news, you might get the maintainer on the other machine to
add you to group news in exchange for offering to fix it.

Let me know if this works.

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R. Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc. Prof. of Socl. Sci., GMI Eng.&Mgt.Inst.,Flint,MI
email: ellis@nova.gmi.edu