At 10:40 AM 4/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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}
Those errors are ok and can be ignored.
>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.
That error is a bit odd, you should add to access.conf at the end
127.0.0.1:read,post:::*
However i doubt that's your real problem.
Send me. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
1000 lines of dnews.in
1000 lines of dnews.log
tellnews stats
tellnews stats_in
tellnews status
dnews.conf
newsfeeds.conf
And I'll figure out the problem.
ChrisP.'
