Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 49105
innxmit does not post articles
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:34:44 EDT
Description of Problem: innxmit does not post anything How Reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure an inn system 2. create a directory containing some Usenet news articles (I use suckmt to suck news from a server, but any messages will do 3. create a batch file with one absolute article file path per line 4. run the innxmit as "innxmit -d localhost /abs/path/to/the batch" Actual Results: innxmit negotiates streaming mode with the server, then quits without sending any articles and removes the batch file. There is no mention of any problems in the logs, just the usual message that the innxmit was run and sent zero articles. Expected Results: the articles are posted Additional Information: When using strace/ltrace there is an evidence that the batch file is read and parsed, but the only communication with the server is streaming mode negotiation (it makes no difference when I disable it) and then quit command. Downgrading to inn 2.2.3 from RH 7.0 fixes the problem. This system was updated from RH 7.0 to 7.1 - it is no fresh install (in the case it matters). If you need more info, I can install the 7.1 version of inn again and send complete inn config.
I tested version 2.3.2-5 from Roswell. This time it is different - the innxmit tries to send the article, but it seems like it forgets to sned a single dot on a line to signal end of the article - this can be verified by doing strace. The net effect is that innxmit will hang, never sending anything. Reproduce: as in original bug report. If a dot on a line is added to the article file, the innxmit does send the article.
Disregard previous mail, my news server offered me news articles with crlf instead of lf (I am fetching news via suckmt and posting them to the local news server). This was probably the reason the new innxmit was quite confused. Please, set this bug to resolved in Roswell and later. The original bug was fixed between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, see http://www.isc.org/products/INN/inn-current.html: Changes from 2.3.1 are: * innxmit can again handle regular filenames as input as well as storage API tokens (allowing it to be used to import an old traditional spool). Thanks