I have just discovered that every since my epic crash of 15 Apr 2023,
my innreport hasn't been running, or at least generating a html page.

After my file system ran out of inodes, I copied everything to a
different server. The current status is that I downloaded the latest
innd from git, so running from Apr 15.

I went through the configs and reconfigured,

innreport.conf contains
html_dir "/var/www/news/inn"; # default to pathhttp in inn.conf.

:~/etc$ ls -ld /var/www/news/inn

the directory has the correct permissions.

I don't see any logs that would indicate if it ran or not.

news.daily is configured to run out of cron. I've not made any changes
here.

1 0 * * * /news/bin/news.daily expireover lowmark delayrm

Right now I'm open to suggestions...I've obviously missed the obvious!

Thanks

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Hi Nigel,

> innreport.conf contains
> html_dir "/var/www/news/inn"; # default to pathhttp in inn.conf.
>
> :~/etc$ ls -ld /var/www/news/inn
>
> the directory has the correct permissions.

That is to say the news user can access it and write in it?

Do you also have:
html true;
graph true;

> I don't see any logs that would indicate if it ran or not.

Why not just run it by hand?

innreport -f /etc/news/innreport.conf -notdaily

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On Thu, 4 May 2023 19:27:06 +0200
Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

>
> Do you also have:
> html true;

There it was! Thank you. :)

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On Thu, 4 May 2023 19:27:06 +0200
Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi Nigel,
>
> > innreport.conf contains
> > html_dir "/var/www/news/inn"; # default to pathhttp in
> > inn.conf.
> >
> > :~/etc$ ls -ld /var/www/news/inn
> >
> > the directory has the correct permissions.
>
> That is to say the news user can access it and write in it?
>
> Do you also have:
> html true;
> graph true;

So this wasn't the solution, it seems. Still no report.

>
>
> > I don't see any logs that would indicate if it ran or not.
>
> Why not just run it by hand?
>
> innreport -f /etc/news/innreport.conf -notdaily
>

I don't think this is working. I started the report at 11:43am and it's
now 1:50pm. How long should I expect it to take?

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On Fri, 5 May 2023 13:51:15 -0500
Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 May 2023 19:27:06 +0200
> Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Hi Nigel,
> >
> > > innreport.conf contains
> > > html_dir "/var/www/news/inn"; # default to pathhttp in
> > > inn.conf.
> > >
> > > :~/etc$ ls -ld /var/www/news/inn
> > >
> > > the directory has the correct permissions.
> >
> > That is to say the news user can access it and write in it?
> >
> > Do you also have:
> > html true;
> > graph true;
>
> So this wasn't the solution, it seems. Still no report.
>
> >
> >
> > > I don't see any logs that would indicate if it ran or not.
> >
> > Why not just run it by hand?
> >
> > innreport -f /etc/news/innreport.conf -notdaily
> >
>
> I don't think this is working. I started the report at 11:43am and
> it's now 1:50pm. How long should I expect it to take?

Still running, this has to be bugged somehow or I'm running it wrong.

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Thus spake Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com>
>> > innreport -f /etc/news/innreport.conf -notdaily
>> I don't think this is working. I started the report at 11:43am and
>> it's now 1:50pm. How long should I expect it to take?

From man innreport:

"At least one non-empty log file to parse should be given at the end of the command line invoking innreport."

Without passing the log file name, my innreport shows the same behaviour
as yours.

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Hi Wolfgang,

>>>> innreport -f /etc/news/innreport.conf -notdaily
>>>
>>> I don't think this is working. I started the report at 11:43am
>>> and it's now 1:50pm. How long should I expect it to take?
>
> From man innreport:
>
> "At least one non-empty log file to parse should be given at the end
> of the command line invoking innreport." >
> Without passing the log file name, my innreport shows the same
> behaviour as yours.
Oh, exactly, I should have tested. Sorry, Nigel!

I just had a look at:

% innreport -h
Usage:
innreport -f innreport.conf [-[no]options]

where the log files are missing in the arguments 🙁

Whereas indeed the manual page mentions them:

innreport -f config-file [all the options] log-file [log-file ...]

Now fixed, thanks!

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On Sat, 6 May 2023 09:08:50 +0200
Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> >>>> innreport -f /etc/news/innreport.conf -notdaily
> >>>
> >>> I don't think this is working. I started the report at 11:43am
> >>> and it's now 1:50pm. How long should I expect it to take?
> >
> > From man innreport:
> >
> > "At least one non-empty log file to parse should be given at the end
> > of the command line invoking innreport." >
> > Without passing the log file name, my innreport shows the same
> > behaviour as yours.
> Oh, exactly, I should have tested. Sorry, Nigel!
>
> I just had a look at:
>
> % innreport -h
> Usage:
> innreport -f innreport.conf [-[no]options]
>
> where the log files are missing in the arguments 🙁
>
> Whereas indeed the manual page mentions them:
>
> innreport -f config-file [all the options] log-file [log-file ...]
>
>
> Now fixed, thanks!
>

Same on this side. I think there was something else I forgot to set
when I was setting the news server up again. I'm getting my reports
now. Thanks for the hints. At least we helped squish something along
the way.

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