Seeing a lot of these newgroup messages this week

What steps should I take to deal with this and are others seeing this as well
... we get our feed thru Sprint ..

with Subjects in the news posting  that look like SPAM to me, i.e>>>
this one is >> Re: they are considering at times the cottage now, won't sigh
dukes later
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:17:06 GMT

others...
-- Subject: Re: while eds punctually suppose employers, the dusts often serve
alongside the nineteenth-century sequences
-- Re: how will we mutter after Iman examines the proposed balcony's scrap
-- Re: tell Robert it's roasted swallowing in front of a easter
-- Re: where did Thomas grasp outside all the gowns?  We can't equip belts
unless Mary will over prohibit afterwards
-- Re: she can comparatively invade angry and mays our bright, pathetic
surpluss on to a morning

-----Original Message-----
From: News Administrator [mailto:news <at> lst.usace.army.mil] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:54 AM
To: usenet <at> lst.usace.army.mil
Subject: newgroup <us.sc.florence.forsale> y admin <at> usenetnews.us

admin <at> usenetnews.us asks for <us.sc.florence.forsale> to be created.

If this is acceptable, type:
  /usr/local/news/bin/ctlinnd newgroup <us.sc.florence.forsale> y
admin <at> usenetnews.us

Re: Dynamic Sucking Feed (fwd)

[ obviously the program which send sends the "welcome to the list" message
  and the one which rejects non-list post are not speaking... I'll try 
  this one more time...  -w.e.d. ]

Resent message:

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, joey wrote:

> Hey there,
> 
> is there any way to configure inn to support "Dynamic Sucking Feed" - as
> dnews provides?
> 
> -> let the reader only suck the newsgroups, the user request/read.

You can configure nnrpd to allow the site to read, I'm not sure what a 
"dynamic sucking feed" really would be other than read permission.

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Re: Seeing a lot of these newgroup messages this week

On Nov 1, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Wilson, Sue EIS-NWD wrote:
> What steps should I take to deal with this and are others seeing  
> this as well
> ... we get our feed thru Sprint ..
>
> with Subjects in the news posting  that look like SPAM to me

You're not alone -- we got a metric tonne of these in the space of  
about 15 minutes.  I'm not entirely sure what to make of them since  
they look like what I think I'd see for a new hierarchy, except I  
don't think us.* is new.  Also, the subjects do appear, universally,  
to be spam and there's no information for the newsgroupfile like in a  
"real" creation request.  I'm still quite the neophyte when it comes  
to managing a Usenet server and would love to hear what some of the  
more experienced admins think about these, and if they were seeing  
them too.

Thanks,
Jeff

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Re: Dynamic Sucking Feed (fwd)

Hi,
On Tue, Nov 01, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> > is there any way to configure inn to support "Dynamic Sucking Feed" - as
> > dnews provides?
> > 
> > -> let the reader only suck the newsgroups, the user request/read.
> 
> You can configure nnrpd to allow the site to read, I'm not sure what a 
> "dynamic sucking feed" really would be other than read permission.

I think he meant, that dnews doesn't fetch any article till the user
request for it and then it fetch only those article, which are requested.
This save much traffic, but the user has to wait a little more.

I don't know, whether it is possible or not.

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[Fwd: Re: Dynamic Sucking Feed (fwd)]

Perl filter and availiable headers

Hello all.
I've recently discovered that some of the checks I made with the perl
filters were useless since all the article headers aren't stored in
%hdr.

Seeing that, I poked around a bit in the code, and managed to do
something quite simple : a $hdr{__HEAD__} which contains the headers...
sort of.

Since the article parser writes in-place, some of the end-of-lines are
munged (\r\n becomes \0\n).  And I have the "takethis" part, too.

Somehow, it's sufficient for me, since I can still work around it with
perl, but I wondered if there is a need for a more elegant solution, and
if there is a chance to see it incorporated into the code ?

The diff is joined ; I'm open to any improvements (#define's around to
make it a compile-time option ? an innd option ?)...  I guess I should
be able to copy it into python code, too.

TIA,

Fred
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All-night singing blood and soul    You can ask to see, Lola, Lola
All night, spitting blood and soul  You can scream it, Lola, Lola
All night, bleeding blood and soul  You can scream it (Noir Désir, Lola)

Re: Perl filter and availiable headers

Monday, November 7, 2005, 11:31:40 PM, you wrote:

> The diff is joined

Aaaaw.  The list manager stripped it again.  I should know it...

http://news.lacave.net/inn/inn_perl.diff

Fred
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The place that I was born, on the lakeside
As daylight broke, I saw the earth
The trees had burned down to the ground   (Peter Gabriel, Don't Give Up)

Article problems after rebooting server

Hi all

Yesterday I had to reboot server cause of high load left server KO.

Since then I have lost many messages due to caducity and now I'm getting 
  thousands of errors like those:

Nov 17 10:15:45 news nnrpd[22865]: CNFS-sm: could not mmap token 
 <at> 0300455342494E313000000CF59D00000073 <at>  ESBIN10:0x19eb3a0c:115: Cannot 
allocate memory

Nov 17 10:15:45 news nnrpd[22865]: CNFS-sm: could not mmap token 
 <at> 0300455342494E313000000CF9B800000073 <at>  ESBIN10:0x19f3700c:115: Invalid 
argument

Any suggests?

Thx in advance.

Re: Article problems after rebooting server

Francisco Cosin Vallejo wrote...

> Nov 17 10:15:45 news nnrpd[22865]: CNFS-sm: could not mmap token 
>  <at> 0300455342494E313000000CF59D00000073 <at>  ESBIN10:0x19eb3a0c:115: Cannot 
> allocate memory

> Any suggests?

Appearently you've set articlemmap to true in inn.conf. Unless you have
a good reason for it, set it to false.

Out of couriosity, can you retrieve that article manually, i.e. does
"sm  <at> 0300455342494E313000000CF9B800000073 <at> " show a posting?

    Christoph

Re: Article problems after rebooting server

Christoph Biedl escribió:
> Francisco Cosin Vallejo wrote...
> 
> 
>>Nov 17 10:15:45 news nnrpd[22865]: CNFS-sm: could not mmap token 
>> <at> 0300455342494E313000000CF59D00000073 <at>  ESBIN10:0x19eb3a0c:115: Cannot 
>>allocate memory
> 
> 
>>Any suggests?
> 
> 
> Appearently you've set articlemmap to true in inn.conf. Unless you have
> a good reason for it, set it to false.
> 
> Out of couriosity, can you retrieve that article manually, i.e. does
> "sm  <at> 0300455342494E313000000CF9B800000073 <at> " show a posting?
> 
>     Christoph
> 
> 
> 

Executing that i got:

Could not retrieve  <at> 0300455342494E313000000CF9B800000073 <at> 

Not showing anything more

Thx!