In message <199711121624.IAA29255@user2.teleport.com>, Aaron Nabil <nabil@teleport.com> writes: | Paul Gregg writes... | > Im afraid I'm just on this list (as of one day), Website is poor, and cant | > find list archives.... so please bear with me. | | ftp://suburbia.net/pub/mailinglists/nntpcache-users Thanks. | > However, in a test, I entered news.software.nntp and looked at a few articl | es | > then entered news.software.readers and noticed immediately that I was | > looking at the same articles (with some more). Odd. | | I suspect you have just discovered "crossposting". Uh, no. I think I've been in the game long enough now to know that they were not crossposted - I'm not a complete thicko. | > Investigation of the cache revealed that in both nntpcache cache directorie | s | > they had the same files (same inodes) in both directories. | | And "hard links". | | > Is this a known nntpcache bug? Can I fix it? etc etc etc | | It would only be a bug if in fact the articles in question were not | crossposted to those two groups. No one has of yet reported nntpcache | mistakenly crossposting articles between groups. I would view it as a bug, having maintained several INN servers over many years. Perhaps the following evidence will help: sparcy:root/pts/3-/usr/news/nntpcache/cache/news-feed4.bt.net:119/news/software-664#->more readers/42048_head ..... Message-ID: <MPG.ed045878f398c179898f5@news.concentric.net> Xref: btnet-reader news.software.readers:42048 Newsgroups: news.software.readers However, in news.software.nntp there is a file using the same inode: sparcy:root/pts/3-/usr/news/nntpcache/cache/news-feed4.bt.net:119/news/software-665#->more nntp/42048_head .... Message-ID: <MPG.ed045878f398c179898f5@news.concentric.net> Xref: btnet-reader news.software.readers:42048 Newsgroups: news.software.readers As you can see the article was posted solely to news.software.readers but nntpcache links it into news.software.nntp where it should not be. sparcy:root/pts/3-/usr/news/nntpcache/cache/news-feed4.bt.net:119/news/software-670#->find . -inum 342252 9:51AM ./nntp/42048_head ./readers/42048_head Hope this helps. Paul Gregg Technical Director, The Internet Business Ltd, UK. System Administrator, Nyx Net - Free Public Access Unix. -- The Internet Business Ltd, Holywood House, Innis Court, Holywood, BT18 9HF pgregg@tibus.net http://www.tibus.net/ Phone: +44 (0)1232-424190 Fax: +44 (0)1232-424709 Eight out of every five people are math illiterates.
