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From: iand@labtam.oz (Ian Donaldson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: nnmaster dies
Message-ID: <2114@labtam.oz>
Date: 17 Feb 90 05:24:40 GMT
References: <5317@m2c.M2C.ORG>
Organization: Labtam Limited., Melbourne, Australia
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lipton@odin.m2c.org (Gary Lipton) writes:

>I had nn running fine for a couple of weeks (under ULTRIX)
>but now I can't seem to keep nnmaster running.  It goes for a while,
>but it doesn't finish updating the groups.  Nothing that I know
>of has changed.  I've tried reinstalling, but it doesn't help.
>Any suggestions?

We found that if nnmaster was being run, connecting to the remote
via NNTP, and the remote host dies, so does nnmaster.  It doesn't try
and re-establish the NNTP link.

A workaround was simply to run nnmaster from a script in a loop

	while true
	do
	    nnmaster <args>
	    sleep 600
	done

Then, if the remote host dies, nnmaster exits and doesn't get restarted
for 10 minutes... saves thrashing the local system with startup database
checks all the time.

Ian D