[leafnode-list] illegal headers

[Matthias Andree]

Cory C. Albrecht schrieb am 2004-03-24:

> From:           	"Mike Vanecek" <leaf_list at mm-vanecek.cc>
> > Mar 24 09:47:20 www fetchnews[23409]: error: article
> > /var/spool/news/microsoft/public/frontpage/extensions/unix/1218 contained
> > illegal headers
> 
> I just noticed this too, in a bunch of articles from my last run, but when I 
> went to look at the articles, there were not there.

That's why the message is in the past tense. They used to be there but
were removed.

> Is there any way to place 
> these bad articles in a directory like failed.postings to manually see exactly 
> what was bad? This error hasn't shown up before in the output that cron mails 
> me.

To see what was bad, you can use debugmode (= 1 should suffice - but
make sure your syslog.conf captures debug output), then the "contained
illegal headers" will be preceded by a debug info line that states
what's wrong.

> CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh..

Might be the echo switch as well :)

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Matthias Andree

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