Hugo Embrechts <Hugo.Embrechts@kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be> writes...
>alan@manawatu.gen.nz (Alan Brown) writes:
>
>> This has come up before under a slightly different discussion.
>>
>> My prime feedsite accidentally added shitloads of groups with illegal
>> characters in them ( @ ; < >, etc. )
>>
>> These have been manually flushed, but nntpcached insists these groups still
>> exist, which is causing many programs to GPF or coredump when they try to
>> parse the active and newsgroups lists.
>>
>> A restart did _not_ remove them, nor did a SIGUSR1.
>
>A newsgroup for which once an entry has been created in cache.mmap,
>does not disappear from this file any more. Deleted newsgroups
>therefore keep occurring in active lists from nntpcache.
>
>The solution is to stop all nntpcache processes, to remove the memory
>mapped file (see your mmapFile in your config-file, normally
>cache.mmap) and to restart nntpcache which will create a clean file
>from scratch. It seems a good idea to me to do this every night in a
>cron job.
>
I have a related problem, and that is purging myself of newsgroups that are
no longer desired. I would imagine that I can do what Hugo suggests, then
remove the appropriate subdirectories for the spool cache.
Can someone verify this for me, please?
Regards & HNY,
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