[Pan-users] Re: Get new Headers?

[Duncan]

fred <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 29 Sep 2006
19:16:49 -0500:

> I may be a little confused about get new headers in selected groups. I
> thought that it meant get all the headers that are newer than my current
> newest header. When I got new headers in selected groups I jump from Sept
> 20 to Sept 28 with no headers in between (yes there are posts which should
> be there). I am running 0.114 with patch 3. So what happened (guesses are
> ok) and how do I fill in the missing headers without getting all the
> headers?(large group)

New headers /should/ mean what you thought.  There are a couple reasons
why it might not, however.  First, there's a get X days worth of headers
option and a get the last N headers option.  You didn't happen to do one
of those instead of get new headers I don't suppose?

Second, you say there are posts in the middle, but how do you know that? 
If you don't specifically know that they are on your server (you checked
with a different news client, say), perhaps the server hiccuped and
doesn't have the missing days' messages to download.

Third, maybe there's something strange going on with the xref numbering
(per group serial numbered per server, normally) on your server.

It could also be a pan bug, but I'm not sure how to debug it.  Maybe
Charles has an idea.

Anyway, presuming it's not a server or xref sequence issue, the get
headers from server dialog, using the get N days or get N recent headers,
should hopefully cure the issue.  Last time I tried something similar was
before the duplicate posts patch (in 0.113 or 0.114 I think) and I ended
up with a bunch of duplicates, but that issue /should/ be resolved now, so
hopefully it works without issue for you.

You might also try deleting the ~/.pan2/groups dir, or only the files
therein from the offending groups if it isn't all of them.  I'd actually
rename instead of delete, to test it, then delete if it fixed the issue or
restore the old files if not and you don't want to lose the data therein.

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