Package: inn2 Version: 2.6.4-2 Severity: normal Hello,
I was tracking down an odd problem with trying to get ovdb going: news@news:/var/lib/news$ /usr/lib/news/bin/ovdb_init ovdb_init: OVDB: can not open database unless ovdb_monitor is running ovdb_init: database is active ovdb_init: OVDB: can not open database unless ovdb_monitor is running ovdb_init: starting ovdb monitor ovdb_init: starting ovdb server But this leaves off with no ovdb processes actually running. Moreover, makehistory -O complained that it couldn't open overview due to "No such file or directory." Upon investigating things further, I noticed that /etc/news/inn.conf listed pathrun as /run/news, which doesn't exist. I did: mkdir /run/news chown news /run/news and then the ovdb processes started up fine. However, as run is often ephemeral, that isn't really a proper solution. I suspect that one or more of these should happen: 1) pathrun should be something different in the default config 2) README.Debian should document this issue 3) /run/news somehow gets created. I notice that the debian/inn2.init file does do this. However, on systemd systems, the debian/inn2.service file doesn't appear to. Also in situations of needing to run makehistory and such, often innd will have not been running. I wonder if the code to handle this got dropped on the way to systemd? -- John -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages inn2 depends on: ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-137 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.94.2-7 pn inn2-inews <none> ii libc6 2.31-13 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.18-4 ii libdb5.3 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.8 ii libmime-tools-perl 5.509-1 ii libpam0g 1.4.0-9 ii libperl5.32 5.32.1-4+deb11u1 ii libpython3.9 3.9.2-1 ii libsasl2-2 2.1.27+dfsg-2.1 ii libssl1.1 1.1.1k-1+deb11u1 ii libsystemd0 247.3-6 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u1 ii perl-base [perlapi-5.32.1] 5.32.1-4+deb11u1 ii procps 2:3.3.17-5 ii time 1.9-0.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2 inn2 recommends no packages. Versions of packages inn2 suggests: pn gnupg1 <none> pn libgd-perl <none> ii libkrb5-3 1.18.3-6 ii wget 1.21-1+b1
