Hi I getting some errors while running nntpcache. I am trying to connect to one news server provided by our isp. The following is a trace of what happens when I run with the '-n' option. The error I get when trying to connect with a client is below. The configurations files follow the trace. NNTPCache-2.4.0b4 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Australian National Cognitive Facility See the files "COPYING", "FAQ", "LICENSING" and http://www.nntpcache.org/ for copyright details cwd now /opt/nntpcache/etc/nntpcache cwd now /opt/nntpcache/var/nntpcache missing or bad mbase pointer file 'cache.base' starting watch task watch task awakening starting update task update task awakening checking server news.u-net.net for 'overview.fmt' waiting for NTTP connections on DEFAULT:119 waiting for HTTP connections on DEFAULT:9119 connected to NNTP server news.u-net.net as DEFAULT <= [news.u-net.net] 200 Welcome to the U-NET News Server -- http://www.u-net.net/ (Twister v1.2.0) <= [news.u-net.net] 200 Welcome to the U-NET News Server -- http://www.u-net.net/ (Twister v1.2.0) => [news.u-net.net] list overview.fmt <= [news.u-net.net] 215 Order of fields in overview database. parsing 'overview.fmt' from news.u-net.net <= [news.u-net.net] Subject: <= [news.u-net.net] From: <= [news.u-net.net] Date: <= [news.u-net.net] Message-ID: <= [news.u-net.net] References: <= [news.u-net.net] Bytes: <= [news.u-net.net] Lines: <= [news.u-net.net] Xref:full <= [news.u-net.net] . checking server news.u-net.net for 'active' => [news.u-net.net] list <= [news.u-net.net] 215 NewsGroups Follow parsing 'active' from news.u-net.net <= [news.u-net.net] uk.media.tv.angel 0000000066 0000000002 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active->uk.media.tv.angel: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 24hoursupport.helpdesk 0000201091 0000196106 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active- >24hoursupport.helpdesk: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3b 0000001853 0000001844 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active->3b: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3b.config 0000004122 0000004065 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active->3b.config: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3b.misc 0000003874 0000003816 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active->3b.misc: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3b.tech 0000002403 0000002180 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active->3b.tech: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3b.test 0000016796 0000015744 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active->3b.test: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3com.totalservice.support 0000002086 0000002020 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active- >3com.totalservice.support: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3com.totalservice.support.courier 0000000328 0000000327 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active- >3com.totalservice.support.courier: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3com.totalservice.support.netserver 0000000324 0000000325 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active- >3com.totalservice.support.netserver: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] 3com.totalservice.support.radius 0000000223 0000000224 y . . . . . . listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active->comp: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] comp.admin 0000000083 0000000071 y listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->active->comp.admin: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] comp.admin.policy 0000000519 0000000415 y . . . . . . <= [news.u-net.net] talk.politics.soviet Discussion of Soviet politics, domestic and foreign. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups- >talk.politics.soviet: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] talk.politics.theory Theory of politics and political systems. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups- >talk.politics.theory: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] talk.politics.tibet The politics of Tibet and the Tibetan people. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups->talk.politics.tibet: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] talk.rape Discussions on stopping rape; not to be crossposted. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups->talk.rape: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] talk.religion.buddhism All aspects of Buddhism as religion and philosophy. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups- >talk.religion.buddhism: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] talk.religion.course-miracle A Course in Miracles. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups- >talk.religion.course-miracle: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] talk.religion.misc Religious, ethical, & moral implications. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups- >talk.religion.misc: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] talk.religion.newage Esoteric and minority religions & philosophies. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups- >talk.religion.newage: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] talk.rumors For the posting of rumors. listmerge() ignored news.u-net.net->newsgroups->talk.rumors: group not bound to this server <= [news.u-net.net] . update task retiring clean shutdown . . . . . . starting client task client task awakening -> 503 NNTPCache-2.4.0b4 failing server rebuild in progress (1 groups complete, at least 2999 groups to go. Please try again later. romance refused with unknown@localhost (127.0.0.1) due to failing server rebuild in progress (1 groups complete, at least 2999 groups to go) client task retiring localhost exit articles 0 groups 0 bytes 130 localhost times user 0.00 system 0.00 elapsed 0.00 clean shutdown The following are my configuration files. newshouond.conf ; /etc/newshound.conf file ; Newshound Ver 2.0 ; ; email :- andre@weblink.solutions.net.au ; ; Should be local news server. Nntpcache will handle the hard stuff. ; SERVER news.u-net.net PORT 119 ; ; Ban list switches=(on/off/ON/OFF/yes/no/YES/no) ; BAN on ; ; Groups with these words found in them are banned. ; WORD binary WORD binaries WORD picture WORD sex ; ; Files we work with. Don't include trailing / for directories. ; CACHEDIR /opt/nntpcache/var/nntpcache CACHEHISTORY cache.history HOUNDLIST hound.list ; ; Hound napping time, after which the hound starts snapping. ;-) ; MINS 60 ; ; We don't collect for groups with less then LOWMARK's article count. ; LOWMARK 50 nntpcache.access # $Id: nntpcache.access-dist,v 1.3 1999/12/27 06:27:31 proff Exp $ # # full access for our local network localhost * read,post,filter spam.filter news.u-net.net * ihave <STDIN> * read,post * *pictures* deny,strip * *binaries* deny,strip * *.-.*, deny,strip * *._.* deny,strip nntpcache.config # $Id: nnconf.cf.in,v 1.8 2000/02/19 11:16:15 proff Exp $ configDir /opt/nntpcache/etc/nntpcache configFile nntpcache.config serversFile nntpcache.servers accessFile nntpcache.access cacheDir /opt/nntpcache/var/nntpcache adminEmail usenet@localhost umask 022 niceMaster 0 niceClient 10 niceHTTP 2 niceUpdate 4 niceNoCem 15 niceExpire 15 chrootDir /usr/local/nntpcache_root chroot off overviewFmtInternal Subject: From: Date: Message-ID: References: Bytes: Lines: Xref:full overviewFmtBozo Subject: From: Date: Message-ID: References: Bytes: Lines: minActive 3000 ihaveServers news.u-net.net:119 ihaveSpeedHandshake on maxMsgIDsearch 2 maxReaders 200 safeGroup .abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890_-+=':& groupSecurity off listSecurity off listPermitLonelyness no listActiveThreshold 0 contentFilters on xoverFilters on nocem off nocemInitialScan 8192 nocemInterval 3m nocemGroups news.lists.filters nocemCache false nocemFrom . nocemType spam|spew|MMF nocemAction hide nocemPGP no nocemPGPbegin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- nocemPGPend -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- nocemPGPcommand pgp -f +batchmode >/dev/null 2>%s nocemPGPgood ^Good signature nocemPGPPATH /opt/nntpcache/etc/nntpcache relayUnknowns no user nntpcache group news Organization IMS MAXIMS plc replaceOrganization yes postStripHeader ^X-foo: bindAddr DEFAULT:119 maxMmap 32M anonMmap yes minFilesFreePercent 30 minBlocksFreePercent 30 hisHighWater 60M hisLowWater 40M maxArtAge 2w expireCheckPeriod 5m overviewFmtTimeout 7d rfc931 no rfc931Timeout 5 useLibWrap no taskInfoPrivacy no logInn yes logFromClient yes logToClient yes logFromServer yes logToServer yes logListMerge yes logListMergeCorrelation yes logNocem no logDebug yes logInfo yes logWarnings yes logErrors yes statistics yes httpServer yes httpBindAddr DEFAULT:9119 httpFiles /opt/nntpcache/etc/nntpcache/http minUpdateDelay 10m minUpdateRefusedDelay 24h minUpdateFailDelay 10m networkTimeout 5m idleTimeout 25m remoteIdleTimeout 10m serverDownRecheck 5m outputBufferSize 8k maxXoverNodes 20 authinfoDefaultType none authinfoDefaultSource passwd #ldapServer your.ldap.server.here #ldapPort 389 ldapBase dc=yourdomain, dc=com pipeProgram /opt/nntpcache/libexec/unixauth pipeTimeout 20 statsFile nntpcache.stats historyFile cache.history pidFile nntpcache.pid overviewFmtFile overview.fmt mmapFile cache.mmap mmapBaseFile cache.base nntpcache.servers #$Id: nntpcache.servers-dist,v 1.3 1999/12/24 09:41:04 proff Exp $ # host:port Interface Active Act.tim Newsgrp Group Xover Arts news.u-net.net DEFAULT 24h 4d 4d 30m 60d 60d %BeginGroups # Group pattern Host comp.admin.* news.u-net.net
