Re: Spool goes crazy sometimes?

Eric Wick <[email protected]> wrote:
> i'm using a libz spool to save harddisc memory. Sometimes a whole
> group goes crazy, the expire script with
> 
> su news -c "/usr/local/sbin/snexpire * >/dev/null"
> 
> goes crazy. It outputs thousands of lines "cannot unlink 4238423".

Sidenote: please don't paraphrase error messages, cut'n'paste them from the
logs instead. I can't look through the code for the location of the error if
I don't have the exact error message.

> This effect cannot be repaired with harolds maint script. The group
> must be deleted and recreated. This happens since 0.3.4a to the
> running testversion. The output from snexpire blast up the cronmail,

Haven't seen or heard about something like that before, sorry. Is it
reproducible?

> Who got the same effect? What did the unlink mean and can this output
> be reduced to one info "555000 articles not unlinked" instead of so

Eh, do you have groups with half a million articles?

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