Your nntpcache.servers file is very likely to be incorrectly written. Mark Ivens <mivens@clara.net> writes: > Hello, > > I'm having a play with nntpcache and it newver seems to get past the initial > server rebuild stage (0 groups complete) despite it having been started 3 hours > previously. There's nothing logged at news.info that would suggest a problem > (and I have logDebug set to yes) so I'm kind of stuck and would welcome some > suggestions. > > Here's various stuff from news.info since I started it up: > > Feb 22 13:09:57 dionysos nntpcached[22973]: waiting for NTTP connections on DEFAULT:119 > Feb 22 13:09:57 dionysos nntpcached[22973]: waiting for HTTP connections on DEFAULT:9119 > Feb 22 13:09:57 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: update task awakening > Feb 22 13:09:57 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: checking server jupiter.news.clara.net for 'overview.fmt' > Feb 22 13:09:57 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: parsing 'overview.fmt' from jupiter.news.clara.net > Feb 22 13:09:57 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: checking server jupiter.news.clara.net for 'active' > Feb 22 13:09:57 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: parsing 'active' from jupiter.news.clara.net > Feb 22 13:09:59 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: checking server jupiter.news.clara.net for 'active.times' > Feb 22 13:09:59 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: parsing 'active.times' from jupiter.news.clara.net > Feb 22 13:10:00 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: checking server jupiter.news.clara.net for 'newsgroups' > Feb 22 13:10:00 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: parsing 'newsgroups' from jupiter.news.clara.net > Feb 22 13:10:00 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: checking server mors.news.clara.net for 'overview.fmt' > Feb 22 13:10:00 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: parsing 'overview.fmt' from mors.news.clara.net > Feb 22 13:10:00 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: checking server mors.news.clara.net for 'active' > Feb 22 13:10:00 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: parsing 'active' from mors.news.clara.net > Feb 22 13:10:42 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: checking server mors.news.clara.net for 'active.times' > Feb 22 13:10:42 dionysos nntpcache-update[22974]: parsing 'active.times' from mors.news.clara.net > [snip] > Feb 22 15:24:21 dionysos nntpcache-client[23103]: shaft.noc.clara.net romance refused with unknown@shaft.noc.clara.net (195.8.70.216) due to rebuild in-progress (0 groups complete) > Feb 22 15:24:21 dionysos nntpcache-client[23103]: client task retiring > Feb 22 15:24:21 dionysos nntpcache-client[23103]: shaft.noc.clara.net exit articles 0 groups 0 > Feb 22 15:24:21 dionysos nntpcache-client[23103]: shaft.noc.clara.net times user 0.01 system 0.00 elapsed 0.00 > Feb 22 15:24:21 dionysos nntpcache-client[23103]: clean shutdown > > Any pointers would be appreciated :) > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mark Ivens mivens@clara.net "I'd buy that for a dollar!" > Systems Administrator Bixby Snyder - Robocop > ClaraNET UK Ltd > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Stefan Kahrs in [Kah96] discusses the notion of completeness--programs which never go wrong can be type-checked--which complements Milner's notion of soundness--type-checked programs never go wrong [Mil78].