Re: can't expire certain groups?

Greetings --

I, too, have been plagued by these errors for months and I was given a
source code for deleting and re-adding the groups flagged (Search the
April 2003 inn-workers archives for fixbuff).  After running the program,
the "buffindexed: could not open overview" message goes away, but
I've been getting "buffindexed: could not mmap overview for hidden groups"
instead.

I searched the web for clues on how to get rid of these messages short
of rebuilding the history and/or overview but have come up empty.  I
did find a site on the web which archives and publishes its news.daily logs
and I noticed that this sites logs have the same errors.

I also checked the output of docheckgroups and found that all of groups
I've had trouble with are non-standard.  This makes me wonder if it's
only buffindexed overviews having problems with non-standard newsgroups.



On Fri, 30 May 2003, Donald Roeber wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:20:14 -0400
> From: Donald Roeber <droeber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: inn-workers@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: can't expire certain groups?
>
>
> On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 09:56  PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > Donald Roeber <droeber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> In my nightly report, I've been seeing strange errors that expireover
> >> couldn't expire certain groups.  Anyone have any ideas as to why?
> >> These
> >> groups are stored in CNFS buffers, but that shouldn't matter, should
> >> it?
> >
> >> expireover: could not expire clari.biz.industry.media.releases
> >> expireover: could not expire clari.biz.market.commodities.agricultural
> >> expireover: could not expire clari.biz.market.commodities.misc
> >> expireover: could not expire clari.biz.market.misc
> >> expireover: could not expire clari.biz.misc
> >
> > The logs should have more details about what's going on.
>
> Yeah, I was wondering why they didn't have more details before, then I
> realized syslog had died.  *sigh*
>
> Anyway, now that I'm logging things again, I found the following in
> news.err:
>
> buffindexed: could not open overview for
> 'clair.world.orgainzations.misc'
>
> The same message is in news.notice.  Similar messages exist for other
> groups that expireover couldn't expire.
>
> I'm guessing the best course of action here is to rebuild my history
> and overview files using makehistory?
>
>
> --
> Donald Roeber
> ISC Networking
>
>

--Kathy
kfhemness@xxxxxxxxxxx