[INN 2.3.2] Newsgroup Hierarchy Problem

Hello together,

I installed the INN 2.3.2 on a Debian-Woody (Kernel 2.4) system after a
server-crash and recovered all old messages. The INN checks user/password
with chpasswd. At the moment I have only one test-user with all rights.

The groups are organised hierarchically like this:

news
open
internal.data
internal.news

After rebuilding history and database files the news-clients (tested with
Outlook, Mozilla) only show the groups in the root directory of the
newsserver (e.g. "news" and "open"). The groups "internal.data" and
"internal.news" are "displayed" (Outlook/Mozilla show that there are for
example 130 messages in the "internal.data" group), but no messages or the
list of the messages are displayed...

I think it's not a client problem.

Thanks for Help,
gibelium

In a previous article, "gibelium" <gibelium.DeleteThis@arcor.de> said:
>newsserver (e.g. "news" and "open"). The groups "internal.data" and
>"internal.news" are "displayed" (Outlook/Mozilla show that there are for
>example 130 messages in the "internal.data" group), but no messages or the
>list of the messages are displayed...
>
>I think it's not a client problem.

The best way to verify that it's not a client problem is to telnet to the
nntp port and issue commands like so:
mode reader
group internal.data
listgroup internal.data
head <number>
and so on.

However, in a case like this it seems that the most frequent problem is
that your overview database is corrupt. Rebuild it. See the makehistory
man page for details on how.


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