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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete•org>
To: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch•de>
Cc: nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.su
Subject: Re: What is /hdr/ subdirectory?
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:50:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sea75bb6.fsf@complete.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9adc2cdb-2aea-4d30-b933-0b77c62d6988@danisch.de> (Hadmut Danisch's message of "Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:28:41 +0100")
Hi Hadmut,
Sergey has some information about it here:
https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org/Spool.html#HdrFile
You can also use a nohdr option in the config file or on the command
line to suppress this.
They can be safely removed also.
- John
On Wed, Mar 11 2026, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> technical question because I'm hunting a bug:
>
> In /var/spool/nncp/*/tx there is a subdirectory /hdr/ .
>
> There is always a pair of files, eg.
>
> tx/7SM43TMJGSV3RGBZT4RPYK4XJN3HSMBGWPLEIBI2IMZPABREB4BQ
> tx/hdr/7SM43TMJGSV3RGBZT4RPYK4XJN3HSMBGWPLEIBI2IMZPABREB4BQ
>
> and I'm hunting the problem, why they do have different ownerships, the hdr file is
> owned by root and silently skipped by the daemon.
>
> For some reason, the hdr file is generated significantly later (here: 10min).
>
> So my question is: What is the /hdr/ file? On what occasion is it generated?
>
> regards
>
> Hadmut
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 23:28 What is /hdr/ subdirectory? Hadmut Danisch
2026-03-11 2:50 ` John Goerzen [this message]
2026-03-11 11:51 ` Permissions (Was: What is /hdr/ subdirectory?) Hadmut Danisch
2026-03-11 12:08 ` Permissions John Goerzen
2026-03-11 12:32 ` Permissions Hadmut Danisch
2026-03-11 16:27 ` Permissions John Goerzen
2026-03-11 16:35 ` Permissions Hadmut Danisch
2026-03-11 16:48 ` Permissions John Goerzen
2026-03-11 16:30 ` Permissions John Goerzen
2026-03-15 8:17 ` Permissions Sergey Matveev
2026-03-11 7:36 ` What is /hdr/ subdirectory? Sergey Matveev