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    From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 25 13:29:59 2024
    Hi all,

    Sorry for 1001 questions.

    Using pullnews, I noticed this in my logs

    tradspool: could not symlink
    /news/spool/articles/alt/0/infinity/squared/3 to /news/spool/articles/alt/1/aardvark/3: Not a directory
    SERVER cant store article: Not a directory

    and then it stopped processing.

    How do I get around this?



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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Julien_=C3=89LIE?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 25 22:11:32 2024
    Hi Nigel,
    tradspool: could not symlink
    /news/spool/articles/alt/0/infinity/squared/3 to /news/spool/articles/alt/1/aardvark/3: Not a directory
    SERVER cant store article: Not a directory

    Wouldn't it be because you have newsgroup names with components
    containing only numbers? This does not work well with tradspool, as for instance you cannot store articles for a newsgroup named
    "alt.1.aardvark.3" if "alt.1.aardvark" is also a newsgroup, and has an
    article numbered 3... You should either remove that file (/news/spool/articles/alt/1/aardvark/3), clean your active file to
    remove newsgroups with conflicting names or use another storage method
    than tradspool if you need storing such articles.

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  • From Ivo Gandolfo@21:1/5 to Nigel Reed on Thu Jan 25 22:35:25 2024
    On 25/01/2024 22:30, Nigel Reed wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:11:32 +0100
    Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Hi Nigel,
    tradspool: could not symlink
    /news/spool/articles/alt/0/infinity/squared/3 to
    /news/spool/articles/alt/1/aardvark/3: Not a directory
    SERVER cant store article: Not a directory

    Wouldn't it be because you have newsgroup names with components
    containing only numbers? This does not work well with tradspool, as
    for instance you cannot store articles for a newsgroup named
    "alt.1.aardvark.3" if "alt.1.aardvark" is also a newsgroup, and has
    an article numbered 3... You should either remove that file
    (/news/spool/articles/alt/1/aardvark/3), clean your active file to
    remove newsgroups with conflicting names or use another storage
    method than tradspool if you need storing such articles.


    Ah, I see the problem. It appears to be the unfortunate result of a
    typo back in 2008

    Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt,abortion
    Xref: wibble.sysadmininc.com talk.abortion:4334 alt:1

    That means that alt/1/aardvark couldn't be created.

    I'm more inclined to just delete the articles from /news/spool/alt and
    that should solve the problem. That said, alt is an actual group so
    maybe the alt.1.aardvark has to go.





    I suggest you to switch to cnfs ASAP, I have same problem on my server paganini, now I'm moving and create a new infrastructure, all my new 3
    server use cnfs without this problem, I'm grabbing all history from
    various source without big deal (300GB/day).


    Sincerely

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 25 15:30:21 2024
    On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:11:32 +0100
    Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Hi Nigel,
    tradspool: could not symlink
    /news/spool/articles/alt/0/infinity/squared/3 to /news/spool/articles/alt/1/aardvark/3: Not a directory
    SERVER cant store article: Not a directory

    Wouldn't it be because you have newsgroup names with components
    containing only numbers? This does not work well with tradspool, as
    for instance you cannot store articles for a newsgroup named "alt.1.aardvark.3" if "alt.1.aardvark" is also a newsgroup, and has
    an article numbered 3... You should either remove that file (/news/spool/articles/alt/1/aardvark/3), clean your active file to
    remove newsgroups with conflicting names or use another storage
    method than tradspool if you need storing such articles.


    Ah, I see the problem. It appears to be the unfortunate result of a
    typo back in 2008

    Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt,abortion
    Xref: wibble.sysadmininc.com talk.abortion:4334 alt:1

    That means that alt/1/aardvark couldn't be created.

    I'm more inclined to just delete the articles from /news/spool/alt and
    that should solve the problem. That said, alt is an actual group so
    maybe the alt.1.aardvark has to go.



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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to Ivo Gandolfo on Thu Jan 25 16:05:47 2024
    On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:35:25 +0100
    Ivo Gandolfo <[email protected]> wrote:


    I suggest you to switch to cnfs ASAP, I have same problem on my
    server paganini, now I'm moving and create a new infrastructure, all
    my new 3 server use cnfs without this problem, I'm grabbing all
    history from various source without big deal (300GB/day).



    I like tradspool since I have direct access to the articles. I did
    tried cnfs and couldn't get a long with it. Might also have been
    limited disk space I had at the time. I didn't want articles cycling
    over. I've only found 4-5 issues so far so I'm not too bothered. I
    think the only big issue will be if someone posts article 2600 in alt
    then it'd crash wit the alt.2600 group!



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