slrnpull misbehave if no space is left on device

Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi John,

I've got this bug report <news:[email protected]> in
the german news group de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc:

I discovered a misbehaviour in slrnpull.  For each newsgroup
slrnpull records a .minmax file, memoring the oldest and latest
article stored in the pool by xref number.  A typical contents
would be "123 145".

If your disk runs full, slrnpull will overwrite these files with
files counting zero bytes.  After that, it won't run complaining
about not being able to read the .minmax file.

If you don't have a recent backup, one can repair this by
putting the first and the last article stored for a group in
minmax, and slrnpull will be happy again.
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The user rans slrnpull 0.9.9pre111.

Bye, Jörg.
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