[leafnode-list] Re: leafnode creating multi-megabyte log files )-:

[Matthias Andree]

Am 19.05.2011 11:33, schrieb Robert Grimm:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
>> You haven't shown the fetchnews command line (from shell or cron) that
>> triggers this kind of logging.  The -x option is notorious for that,
>> naturally :)
> 
> For reference
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623302
> 
>> Also, if your fetchnews runs do not complete successfully or cannot
>> update (= write to) the last-fetched records in the server-status files
>> (.../leaf.node/news.gmane.org), that situation can cause such logging.
> 
> I'm quite sure that I've seen such logging without the mentioned
> circumstances, but I have yet to setup a test system to investigate
> further.

Well. Same symptom in 623302, same server.

What are the chances that GMANE renumbers articles?

We don't see that in the logs, but only on console (or cron mail) in -v
mode (fetchnews.c near line 818), where fetchnews will ask "switched
upstream servers?" and back up all the way.