Re: sngetd problems

Wolfgang Scheicher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> i now have sngetd running.
> I start it with:
> 
> su news -c "/usr/sbin/sngetd -a 5"
> 
> I'm not sure - i couldn't find more docu on "-a" than the output of "sngetd 
> --help", but i think " [a age] " does mean something like minimum time 
> between 2 syncs, because when starting sngetd without that option it works 
> once, and never again.

If you had the patience to wait 10 minutes, it would probably work again. :)
Quoting from the source code:

static int age = (10 * 60); /* don't fetch group within 10 min. of last fetch */

> i have cronjob which echoes to the .fifo every 15 minutes to initiate a sync, 
> and i have enterd a echo line into less /usr/sbin/POST to immediately send 
> posts to the upstream server.
> 
> Everything seemed to work like i wanted to, but when i had a look at the 
> server today, i noticed that i have tons of zombie snstore processes.
> What the hell have i done wrong this time?
> 
> A series of about 50 lines like this in ps aux:
> news <pid> 0.0 0.0  0  0 ?   Z   09:22   0:00 [snstore] <defunct>

Interesting. Seems that sngetd causes these, restart and they go away.
I'll add it to the bug list...

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