Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Strange problem with Cnews
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.070618.15973@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <52846@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 90 07:06:18 GMT

In article <52846@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> rosenblg@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Gary J. Rosenblum) writes:
>... strangely, i ran 'mkdbm history' once and
>while it was rebuilding, news transferred perfectly.  the problem cleared up
>two days ago after the expiry ran, but happened again during the middle of
>the day.  any clues?  sounds like a bad dbm or history file...

Are you sure that nntp and C News agree on the format of the history index?
Dbm and dbz are **NOT** file-compatible.  Both nntp and relaynews want to
do history lookups; they must agree on the file format.  If you're using dbz
in C News, you must do likewise in nntpd and friends.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry