So far, so good with 2.2b5, except for this: >Trying 202.36.148.68... >Connected to news.manawatu.gen.nz. >Escape character is '^]'. >200 news.manawatu.gen.nz NNTPcache server V2.2b5 [see www.nntpcache.org] (c) 1996-1998 Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> Jan 16 1998 ready (posting ok). > NNTPCACHE 2.2b5 statistics on news.manawatu.gen.nz, DEFAULT:119 OVERALL: Statistics gathering commenced: 14 Jan 1998 06:02:40 NZDT Current nntpcached started: 16 Jan 1998 08:48:00 NZDT Servers run during statistical period: 7 Clients active: -1143 Client connects: 0 ( -1143 ? ) IPC messages from children (bytes): 17.05M CPU Usage (User) in server: 21884.33s CPU Usage (System) in server: 14372.91s CPU Usage (User) in update daemon: 1527.12s CPU Usage (System) in update daemon: 259.23s CPU Usage (User) in children: 16457.36s CPU Usage (System) in children: 10883544.63s Total time elapsed in children: 0s Database stores: 158.63k Database fetches: 275b Database size: 120.55M GROUP commands: 149.37k LISTGROUP commands: 8.19M Groups cached with > 0 articles: 719 Groups expired: 106007614 (106 million?) Articles expired: 1b Posts: 34b Posts (crossposted): 6b Posts (failed): 2b Posts (bytes): 36.30k Incoming crossposts: 137.54k Incoming crossposts (bytes): 1.68G LISTS: List-name---- --out-of-cache -----into-cache hits --xfer-per-hour lines -length active 0 - At this point the server closes its connection and it's been doing this with all 2.x versions I've checked. AB