Please forgive my complete ignorance, but I'm completely new to the news
server adminning and got thrown into a complete cock-up. Our news server
has been running fine for almost 2 years with no major changes taking a
full feed from Sprint. Within the last 2 weeks, we've started dropping
90%+ of the incoming feed. Sprint says nothing has changed on their side
and nothing has changed on ours. I've been wading through various logs
and configs and so far, I'm still bewildered by the process. Can anyone
give me clues as to where I should be looking? We're running DNEWS 5.5b3
on RH6.1. Here's some of the log files that looked weird to me, but I
can't find any further info:
12 09:38:54.735 :debug: lib: Can't open
{/var/news/spool0/work/newsfeed-west_sprintlink_net.sending}
12 09:38:54.735 :debug: lib: Can't open
{/var/news/spool0/work/newsfeed-west_sprintlink_net.send}
12 09:38:54.735 :debug: lib: Can't open
{/var/news/spool0/work/newsfeed-west_sprintlink_net.wat}
12 09:38:54.736 :debug: lib: Can't open
{/var/news/spool0/work/news_sprintlink_net.sending}
12 09:38:54.736 :debug: lib: Can't open
{/var/news/spool0/work/news_sprintlink_net.send}
12 09:38:54.736 :debug: lib: Can't open
{/var/news/spool0/work/news_sprintlink_net.feed}
12 09:38:54.736 :debug: lib: Can't open
{/var/news/spool0/work/news_sprintlink_net.wat}
12 09:38:55.549 2:info: slave: Connection from slave on port 2, pid=2
12 09:38:55.549 2:debug: cmd: DONE xdslave 13485105 setslave 2
12 09:38:55.549 2:info: cmd: Do cmdx[2:127.0.0.1] {480 Username and
Password are required to access this server.} {480}
12 09:38:55.549 2:debug: cmd: 480 Username and Password are required to
access this server.
12 09:38:55.549 2:info: Ingnoring status when expecting command
12 09:38:55.549 2:debug: cmd: DONE 480 Username and Password are required
to access this server.
Drive space should be fine, as I understand DNEWS will expire old posts
and bring in the new ones.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 388M 278M 90M 75% /
/dev/sda7 1.4G 99M 1.3G 7% /opt
/dev/sda10 485M 167M 293M 36% /users
/dev/sda6 2.9G 1.4G 1.3G 51% /usr
/dev/sda8 985M 140M 795M 15% /var
/dev/sda5 2.9G 38M 2.7G 1% /var/log
/dev/sdb1 17G 14G 1.8G 88% /var/news/spool0
/dev/sdc1 17G 14G 2.1G 87% /var/news/spool1
/dev/sdd1 17G 14G 2.0G 87% /var/news/spool2
/dev/sda12 6.7G 4.4G 1.9G 70% /var/news/spool3
/dev/sda9 485M 38M 422M 8% /www
I'll happily dig out more info if necessary, but right now, I don't even
know what's pertinent to troubleshooting this issue.
Thanks for any clues you can throw me,
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