According to Julian Assange: > > > I successfully compiled nntpcache 0.92.8UL on an Olivetti UNIX SVR4.0 system > > I take it you were not using gcc? Can you send the patches in? I used the supplied AT&T C compiler. I'll send you the patches in a day or two. > > If I run nntpcache as a foreground process, I again have two nntpcached > > processes running and after a while one disappears. But in this case > > after the 2nd process has disappeared I can telnet to the nntp port and > > actually get articles from both servers. However the caching does not > > seem to work. I see the following files in my cache directory: > > I'm not sure what you mean by "foreground" here. Do you mean -i? If so, > all bets are off, because that debugging code belongs in the attic. I was using -n to stop it detaching from the tty. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Sep 26 18:19 cache.history > > -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 61 Sep 26 18:19 cache.history.dir > > -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Sep 26 18:19 cache.history.pag > > drwxr-xr-x 5 news news 96 Sep 26 18:42 news.hk.olivetti.com./ > > -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 392 Oct 1 17:37 nntpcache.stats > > drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 96 Sep 26 18:57 oligate.hk.olivetti.com./ > > This is correct. You probably are seeing no "cache.mmap" because your > OS doesn't support shared mmaps on files, so nntpcache is using anonymous or > /dev/zero shared mmaps instead. > > > There is no cache.mmap file, and under the group directories all I see are > > xover files. Things worked the same when I had only one server defined. > > I tried creating an empty cache.mmap file, but that didn't make any > > difference. > > Check your article timeout setting. This is what I have now: # /* timeouts */ # host:port Interface Active Act.tim Newsgrp Group Xover Arts news.hk.olivetti.com. DEFAULT 15m 24h 2d 30m 15d 15d %BeginGroups * news.hk.olivetti.com. The articles should be kept for 15 days, but I don't see any. For example, I've just tested using comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but here's the ls -l: $ ls -l /usr4/nntpcache/news.hk.olivetti.com./comp/unix/bsd/freebsd/misc/ total 156 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 51485 Sep 26 11:56 12288_xover -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 27013 Sep 26 11:56 12800_xover $ I retrieved about 5 articles using telnet, but they're not in the cache. Here's what I get in my syslog: Oct 4 15:08:22 rssd unix: /usr/local/sbin/nntpcached[28462]: article.c:83:No such file or directory: no Message-ID in article 'comp/unix/bsd/freebsd/misc/12746' - not cached Oct 4 15:08:36 rssd unix: /usr/local/sbin/nntpcached[28462]: article.c:83:No such file or directory: no Message-ID in article 'comp/unix/bsd/freebsd/misc/13200' - not cached Oct 4 15:08:44 rssd unix: /usr/local/sbin/nntpcached[28462]: article.c:83:No such file or directory: no Message-ID in article 'comp/unix/bsd/freebsd/misc/13300' - not cached Thanks for your help, I'll get the patches back to you. Raju
