I looked at inn2.postinst and realized that my install of the inn2 deb did
not complete successfully. After I ran the makehistory command and did the
mv's, /var/lib/news looked like this (this is using the default sample
history and active files):
lindsey:/var/lib/news# ls -l history*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 341 Jun 15 00:15 history
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 41 Jun 15 00:15 history.dir
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 4500000 Jun 15 00:15 history.hash
-rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 3000000 Jun 15 00:15 history.index
Although INN appears to function, using only local.* groups so far, I wonder
at the size of those files. Should they be so large?
Also I tried makehistory with the '-r' argument, but produced the same
thing. Should I assume that dbz is "turned off" somewhere? I see the phrase
"config.data" in the man pages but that must be for building the source code?
As for the unsuccessful install of the deb, iirc I ran into a problem with
my hostname, so perhaps there is an issue there? ('hostname --fqdn' returns
a correct value.) I have what I think is a properly configured
mostly-caching named running on this machine.
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Bob Bernstein
at http://www.ruptured-duck.com
Esmond, R.I., USA
