Charlie Gibbs wrote: ... > The zero-length files were easy enough to find, and few enough > that I just deleted them by hand. No luck. I've even tried > deleting the entire contents of a group, e.g.: > > rm /var/spool/slrnpull/news/linux/debian/user/* > > Still no luck. The group header window still shows the number > of messages that were available; the "c" command resets this to > zero, but I still get "Server read failed." when trying to enter > the group. > > Oddly enough, there are one or two groups which are still > working properly.
if you have a file which keeps track of what you have already read like .jnewsrc there are lines in there for groups you've subscribed to which keep track of which articles you've read. after you delete the files from your spool then you would also need to change the lines back so that you could read them again. here's an example of two lines in my .jnewsrc file that show an example: rec.food.cooking: 1-253560 rec.food.cuisine.jewish! the first line says what articles i've seen and the second is an example of a group i've not read any messages from at all. so if you change the lines of groups you'd like to reread back to ! marks then you should be able to redownload them. you may need to resubscribe to them. > > i'm not at all familiar with slrn's spooling or structure since > > i've been using leafnode ever since i started usenet. leafnode > > has a process that goes through and checks consistency and will > > rebuild an overview file for a group but i've never had a problem > > with it truncating contents to zero. > > I was hoping that there was an slrn guru who could explain all this. > > Oh well, I've been meaning to upgrade my laptop to Bullseye - > maybe it's time to nuke slrn and re-install it from scratch. you can uninstall it but that may not clear up the spool for the groups, so you'd need to see if that actually works or not. songbird
