Hi, I've recently started to see a problem with INN whereby the news.daily script doesn't successfully complete, and leaves the server reserved.
Further investigation shows the following errors in the news.daily report: expire begin Tue Dec 6 13:47:03 GMT 2005: (-v1) expire: dbzsync: putcore failed expire: dbzinit: dbzinit already called once expire: can't dbzinit /var/lib/news/history Success expire: dbz: fseeko failure in putconf: Bad file descriptor /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: line 1: 32095 Segmentation fault expire +-v1 expire end Tue Dec 6 13:47:15 GMT 2005 I figured this might point to a corrupt history database, so I rebuilt it using the following command (with the server stopped) su news -c "/usr/lib/news/bin/makehistory -O -T /tmp" However, the '.hash' and '.index' files appear to be incredibly large given the size of the history file. Is this normal? gently:~# ls -l /var/lib/news/history* -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 833107 Dec 6 14:06 /var/lib/news/history -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 46 Dec 6 14:06 /var/lib/news/history.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 60000000 Dec 6 14:06 /var/lib/news/history.hash -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 40000000 Dec 6 14:06 /var/lib/news/history.index Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]