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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

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-11  3:11 UTC|newest]

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