-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am using the inn2 package to try to set up a periodic download > of newsgroups I read frequently. I use a dial-up ISP, and have a > home LAN with three computers. I have read the docs that came with > the package, and have read the network, cnews, and nntp sections of > a Linux reference book I have, but have been unsuccessful in setting > up my packages. Below is an excerpt from the news.err log file, followed > by a cron message. Hey Russ, Curiously, getting a local news server set up and working was my project this weekend as well. I tried to set up INN2, didn't have much luck, and fell back to INN, which I now have working (I think...) (As an aside, if there are any documentation gurus out there, this particular topic (using INN(2) and suck to get a local newsfeed going) needs some attention. The only info I was able to find was at <URL:http://www.littondale.freeserve.co.uk/LinuxAndFreeserve/News.html>; it was helpful, but seemed a bit out of date, and didn't really have much info about INN, just suck.) - From the error output that you provided, it looks like the news server is failing to start up. I had this problem with INN for a while too -- I had to generate some files in order to get it to work. IIRC, the big stopping block was /var/lib/news/active -- if you see an error message about an active file that suggests you run makeactive, that's the file you're missing. I'd suggest you poke around in /etc/init.d/, find out how the news server is getting started, and make some of those calls from the command line, so that you can get a better handle on why the server isn't starting up. Good luck, and let me know if I can help out further. john. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]------><URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]------><URL:http://genehack.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard iD8DBQE6DuAlWRJRdOm3KFARAme0AJ0U8m+rgSB3kpMKCad8hHmiwL0udQCeJhLR WLlHsZYscGmzgi08fQYR0lk= =N1yB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
