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To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: News Revisited 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:41:17 -0000."
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:43:58 -0400
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"Jonathan A. Zdziarski" wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.95q.970721123936.17696F-100000@netrail.net>:
> I checked the logs and found...
> 
> Jul 21 12:40:47 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned
> netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22378
> Jul 21 12:40:47 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted
> Jul 21 12:40:48 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1
> pid 22378
> Jul 21 12:40:48 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22378 closed
> Jul 21 12:40:48 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned
> netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22380
> Jul 21 12:40:48 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted
> Jul 21 12:40:49 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1
> pid 22380
> Jul 21 12:40:49 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22380 closed
> Jul 21 12:40:49 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned
> netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22381
> Jul 21 12:40:49 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted
> Jul 21 12:40:50 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1
> pid 22381
> Jul 21 12:40:50 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22381 closed
> Jul 21 12:40:50 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned
> netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22382
> Jul 21 12:40:50 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted
> Jul 21 12:40:51 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1
> pid 22382
> Jul 21 12:40:51 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22382 closed
> Jul 21 12:40:51 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned
> netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22383
> Jul 21 12:40:51 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted
> Jul 21 12:40:52 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com exit 255 elapsed 1
> pid 22383
> Jul 21 12:40:52 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22383 closed
> Jul 21 12:40:52 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com spawned
> netrail.net.in.netnews.com:28:proc:22384
> Jul 21 12:40:52 news innd: netrail.net.in.netnews.com restarted

That looks like your feed to netnews.com isn't configured
properly. The elapsed times seem to indicate that your nntplink is
exiting abnormally, and innd (being stupid) keeps trying to restart
it.

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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