On Wed, 06 Jul 2005, Don Geddis wrote: > OK, let me try explaining a different way. One such newsgroup that I have > in mind is ... > 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.3.rel running at localhost (my > fqdn: news.geddis.org) > group comp.lang.lisp > 211 1555 13432 14986 comp.lang.lisp group selected > group alt.binaries.aquaria > 411 No such group > quit > 205 Always happy to serve! > Connection closed by foreign host. > As you can see, an "ordinary" group like comp.lang.lisp seems to work fine, > but leafnode gives me a 411 error when I try the alt.binaries.aquaria group. > > So, is that group even available from my newsserver? Let's try there: ... > 281 News.GigaNews.Com > group comp.lang.lisp > 211 62358 115515 177872 comp.lang.lisp > group alt.binaries.aquaria > 211 110 21524 21633 alt.binaries.aquaria > quit > 205 goodbye > Connection closed by foreign host.
Tried "fetchnews -f" yet? I did so, with nodesc=1 set on news.gmane.org, and I have all gmane.org groups in my groupinfo file, albeit without descriptions. So nodesc doesn't preclude anything from being moved into groupinfo yet. That server might not implement newgroups properly, or another reason in the past, with an older leafnode version, and perhaps with timeout_active configuration, may have prevented a proper refresh of the groups. > I've interpreted this evidence as saying that the group exists on the > upstream server, True. > but since leafnode can't get a description of it in its > groupinfo file, it refuses to allow a client to attempt to subscribe to it. False. The groups are added to the groupinfo file before leafnode attempts to download the group description. Only a premature fetchnews crash can cause the groupinfo to be corrupt. Check your syslog configuration (see README), perhaps restart syslogd after reconfiguring syslog.conf, then run fetchnews -f and see if that helps, or if it raises error messages. -- Matthias Andree -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
