When looking at my active file in vi I am seeing this...
free.fr.test.ÏÏ<84>Ï<86>-8 0000000000 0000000001 y
I don't seem to be able to get rid of it with ctlinnd rmgroup.
free.fr.test.<84><86>-8 0000000000 0000000001 y
I don't seem to be able to get rid of it with ctlinnd rmgroup.
Looks like a problem of encoding. The ctlinnd rmgroup command should
provide the same newsgroup name as the one in your active file.
If your terminal uses a different encoding than the one of the active
file you're reading, then some characters may be encoded twice, and INN
does not find the given newsgroup name on command line.
Hi Nigel,
When looking at my active file in vi I am seeing this...
free.fr.test.ÏÏ<84>Ï<86>-8 0000000000 0000000001 y
I don't seem to be able to get rid of it with ctlinnd rmgroup.
Looks like a problem of encoding. The ctlinnd rmgroup command should provide the same newsgroup name as the one in your active file.
If your terminal uses a different encoding than the one of the active
file you're reading, then some characters may be encoded twice, and
INN does not find the given newsgroup name on command line.
When looking at my active file in vi I am seeing this...
free.fr.test.??<84>?<86>-8 0000000000 0000000001 y
It's amazing how much crap has built up in the active group over the
years, not so much the obsolete groups, but groups that have invalid characters, end in a period, some group names are truncated, etc. While
my server isn't perfect, I've tried to clean a lot of stuff up.
My peers are welcome to pull my list and sync with it, and I especially appreciate feedback to fix anything else that's spotted. I will be
running the scripts to cleanup obsolete/incorrect groups as and when
they get identified. Anyone else interested is also welcome to a copy.
Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:
When looking at my active file in vi I am seeing this...
free.fr.test.??<84>?<86>-8 0000000000 0000000001 y
Maybe this will do the trick?
echo -ne "%s" | xargs -0 ctlinnd rmgroup
Where %s is a group name with all non-printable characters replaced
with their hex equivalents (\x84 for example).
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