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From: mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.nn
Subject: Having nntp 1.5.11 troubles...
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Date: 4 Mar 91 21:26:51 GMT
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Configuration:
	MicroVAX 3500 running 4.3 BSD (cica.cica.indiana.edu)
	nntp 1.5.11 
	Cnews (13 Jan 1990 Version)
	nn 6.4.12

I've got a problem and I'm having a hard time pinning it down.

nn is requesting articles in daemon mode (nnmaster -r) every ten
minutes.  Sometime during the collection, the connection is lost with
the host.  (nnmaster is running on the host, so it's talking to
itself.) 

These are the messages in nnmaster's /usr/local/lib/nn/Log file:

...
N: Mar  4 15:06 (M): Lost connection to server cica.cica.indiana.edu:
                     No such file or directory
C: Mar  4 15:06 (M): Collect: 250 art, 99 gr, 279 s
N: Mar  4 15:20 (M): Lost connection to server cica.cica.indiana.edu:
                     No such file or directory
C: Mar  4 15:20 (M): Collect: 268 art, 110 gr, 228 s
N: Mar  4 15:33 (M): Lost connection to server cica.cica.indiana.edu:
                     No such file or directory
C: Mar  4 15:33 (M): Collect: 261 art, 88 gr, 148 s
...

Now, wouldn't it be lovely if we knew which "file or directory" is
missing? :)  Has anyone seen this?  Have any ideas on what is going
on?  nntpd is not logging any strange messages in SYSLOG either.

(By the way, we've got the MAXLOADAVG at 20, so nntpd will not be
phazed by higher loads.)  We've got plenty of diskfree on the spool
device as well.

Thanks, thanks, thanks!


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michael regoli
mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu
regoli@iubacs.BITNET
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