At 11:59 AM 2/9/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I have started hearing from a few users (and have experienced myself) that
>occasionally when a message is posted, the server accepts it but the
>message never shows up in the newsgroup. I can see in the log that the
>message was posted, but it just... isn't there. As far as I know, this
>behavior is happening with a couple specific newsgroups (though this may
>be misleading since we do no have many active posters), and it appears to
>be sporadic. Could something be corrupted?
>
>I am running DNews 5.4f3 under HP-UX.
The first thing to check is
post.rec (to find the message id of the post thats gone missing)
dnews.in (to see if dnews really accepted it)
It's possible if you have spam rules turned on dnews could be silently
rejecting the post e.g. pretending
to accept it, this behaviour can be changed if it's the problem, but you
can easily check by
looking in dnews.in
Second if you are replicating or for any other reason have dnews configured
to send the post upstream
first then that might be causing a problem.
Thridly if the group is moderated, then the post will be sent to the
moderator for approval and would
not be expected to appear unless the moderator approved it. To check this
search active.dat for
the group and see if it's marked as a 'y' or an 'm' group.
If that doesn't solve the problem send me your dnews.conf, newsfeeds.conf
,dnews.log covering
such a problem, and dnews.in
ChrisP.
