7 items... 1: having kill -HUP both toggle debugging _and_ reread the config file is awkward. Moving one to -INT would be a good move. 2: Setting up ftp.nntpcache.org to return current server versions as a finger response would be useful and might reduce network bandwidth a bit (similar to finger @ftp.kernel.org for Linuxen) 3: Is anyone else observing wierd permissions on cache.base from time to time? 4: cache.mmap managed to be corrupted somewhow in the last couple of days. I assume it's because /var/spool/news/ ran out of space. End result was cryptic log messages and a nntpcached which kept exiting. I only killed cache.mmap because there was nothing else left to remove and nntpcached immediately started running happily. 5: (related). If nntpcached starts an expire run and the master server dies, a new master server cannot be started until the expire process has finished or is killed. It took ~20 hours to clear out 5Gb space from my spool, which had users bitching loudly. 6: spam.filter. Anyone got a working spam.filter? I had an extended filter I thought was OK, but 2.2 onwards refuse to start if it's in place. I've had to fall back to the distributed one. The non-working one is available for inspection and ridicule at ftp://news.manawatu.gen.nz/pub/news/spam.filter 7: Syslogging Debug messages. Here's my config. I haven't hupped the server, yet I'm getting mountains of syslog debug messages. System is Linux 2.0.33-i386-elf (slackware 3.4), dillon's crond logFromClient yes logToClient no logFromServer no logToServer yes # (if you're reading from a bunch of servers you'll need these off) logListMerge no logListMergeCorrelation no logDebug no logInfo yes logWarnings yes logErrors yes Syslog.conf (Linuxen): *.=info;*.=notice;news,mail.none -/usr/adm/messages *.=debug;news,mail.none -/usr/adm/debug *.warn;news,mail.none -/usr/adm/syslog news.=crit -/var/spool/news/log.files/news.crit news.=err -/var/spool/news/log.files/news.err news.=notice -/var/spool/news/log.files/news.notice news.=info -/var/spool/news/log.files/news.info news.=debug -/var/spool/news/log.files/news.debug The "-" just tells syslogd not to fsync() after each syslog message. This saves a lot of cpu and disk activity on busy boxes. /var/spool/news/log.files/ is off on its own disk. AB
