On Jul 14, proff@suburbia.net wrote: > > I've installed 1.0.6.5 on a FreeBSD 2.2.2 box. Nntpcached runs fine the > > first time: I can read news, and see that stuff appear in the spool > > directory. When I sigterm'ed nntpcached, it refuses to start again; > > here's the syslog entry: > > Do you perhaps mean SIGUSR2? I've just zapped the thing and started again. Here's the start up: Jul 14 21:36:26 madcap nntpcached[878]: history.c:35:No such file or directory: missing history file 'cache.history' Jul 14 21:36:26 madcap nntpcached[878]: history.c:41:No such file or directory: missing history file 'cache.history.dir' Jul 14 21:36:26 madcap nntpcached[878]: history.c:47:No such file or directory: missing history file 'cache.history.pag' Fire up trn, read some news. /usr/local/pkg/nntpcache/spool:$ ls -l total 10 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 546 Jul 14 21:47 cache.history -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 61 Jul 14 21:47 cache.history.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Jul 14 21:47 cache.history.pag drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 512 Jul 14 21:44 news.pacific.net.sg./ -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 392 Jul 14 21:47 nntpcache.stats -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 69 Jul 14 21:36 overview.fmt /usr/local/pkg/nntpcache/spool/news.pacific.net.sg./comp/unix/bsd/freebsd/misc:$ ls -l total 262 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 37158 Jul 14 21:46 46592_xover -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 88452 Jul 14 21:46 47104_xover -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1743 Jul 14 21:46 47351 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 750 Jul 14 21:46 47351_head -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 788 Jul 14 21:46 47359_head -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1897 Jul 14 21:46 47589 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 883 Jul 14 21:46 47589_head SIGUSR2 nntpcached, and syslog gets this: Jul 14 21:47:26 madcap nntpcached[878]: history.c:290:No child processes: couldn't prune history (second fgets()) Start nntpcached again: Jul 14 21:47:52 madcap nntpcached[928]: history.c:290:Bad file descriptor: couldn't prune history (second fgets()) -- Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@post1.com>
