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In lugnet.admin.general, "Gereon \"Jerry\" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote:
> I had encountered a major hang in the internals of the news system the other day
> and resolved the same - for reasons entirely mystic to me that must have
> triggered something to page through all of the newsgroups and remove articles 1
> and 2 indeed (and yes, they have been _removed_, not just renamed).
One thing worth a quick check inside is the directory
news/art/control
If the articles were cancelled maliciously from the outside by forgery (somehow)
of cancel-request messages from <news@lugnet.com>, this directory would contain
a log of the cancel requests. I don't reckon that's what happened (since the
files were missing rather than renamed), but all the same, it might be
comforting to rule it out as a possibility.
--Todd
[fut: .admin.nntp]
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| Todd, thanks for the pointer - I have checked the directory and the last cancel request in there came in back in 2008 (!) so I think it can be ruled out that it happened via that route. I'm putting aside an archive of the last backup before the fix (...) (2 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Interesting that there should be _missing_ posts after all these years. I had encountered a major hang in the internals of the news system the other day and resolved the same - for reasons entirely mystic to me that must have triggered (...) (2 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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