Re: Disk problems on news.gmane.org

On 2006-10-09, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
> Olly Betts <olly <at> survex.com> writes:
>
>> Argh, you've started the wrong log-datespool again!
>
> Oops.  /home/xapian/log-datespool is the correct one, I guess.  

No, that's another old one!  I've now moved it out of the way to avoid
confusion.

The right one is now written in C, and is compiled up here on rain:

/home/xapian/gmane-search-dev/log-datespool

But it generally shouldn't need restarting unless rain itself is
rebooted.  The latest log-datespool is meant to cleanly handle the news
server being rebooted for example - I wasn't able to test that code when
I wrote it, but it looks like it handled the reboot today correctly.

If it does ever need restarting, it really needs to run as user xapian -
the cronjob which updates the database sends log-datespool signals
which won't work if it's running as root, so no new messages will make
it into the index.

Cheers,
    Olly