On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:42:11PM +0200, Miernik wrote: > Package: tin > Version: 1:1.7.10+20050815-1 > Severity: normal > > I am running tin as rtin with a local newsserver (noffle), and today > rtin was running as usual, I have 51 groups in my .newsrc, and I was > away from the computer. When I came back, I see rtin hanged, no reaction > to any keys, and displaing in the last line of the screen: > > Can't retrieve active
sounds like noffle died or closed the link without a propper feedback to the client - as the client can not recognize if the server has closed the connection (if it doesn't give any feedback) till some kind of timeout will occur it sits there and wait's for data (e.g. the active file). this is a server error, not a client one, but the client could have a timeout to detect it (tin doesn't have such a timout anymore, it was removed during some rewrite of the (network)reading code a few years ago). > Looks like it's stuck on connection to local newsserver. But it is like > that since half an hour at least, it should time out or something. There as mentioned above it's the servers fault if it shut's down the connection without telling the client,.but the client should have some kind of timeout to catch the (rare) case that the server fails to tell the client that it had closed the connection. tin once had such a fature but it got lost dring the rewrite of read.c. if anyone is willing to fix this look for NNTP_READ_TIMEOUT. news.arcor.de (dumb cluster setup) has the 'same' prolem, long ideling clients are timed out on the server side but the server fails to tell this the client ... > is not much I can do besides killing it. ps xauww | awk '/[t]in/{print $2}' | kill -1 sould be 'safe' (newsrc should be written out propper). > Finally I did: > > jaworz:~$ sudo killall noffle > jaworz:~$ sudo killall noffle > jaworz:~$ sudo killall -9 noffle > jaworz:~$ sudo killall -9 noffle > noffle: no process killed > jaworz:~$ > > And then rtin did quit too. as it noticed that the connection was closed when the server finally died urs -- "Only whimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]