| Subject: (5.30) Not a directory writing article file -- throttling |
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This typically means that in the spool there is a directory in the spool that thinks it is a file. This seems to happen when the machine running innd crashes, and the spool gets corrupted. Fsck then tries to make sense of the mess it finds; sometimes it guesses wrong. Here is a little script that finds the offending file and disposes of it: #!/bin/sh
#
# change this line to your news spool
NEWS_LOC=/var/spool/news
find ${NEWS_LOC} -type f -print | # list all files
tr -d [0-9] | # get rid of numbers
grep -v "overview" | # get rid of .overview files
egrep -v "/$" | # everything w/ / at end of line
sed -s "s/^/rm /" | # put rm in front of file
sh -s # it's history
or alternatively:
find ${NEWS_LOC} -type f -name "[a-z]*" -print | xargs rm
(From: Carlso Castro <carlos@mci.net> and Matthias Urlichs <urlichs@noris.net>)------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/09/16 01:25:56 $ $Revision: 2.25 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |
