On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> Well leafnodes running again but it wont get any articles. Its a fresh
> install so all articles should be new to it. I ran up Gnus and
> subscribed to comp.editors and then ran leafnode again (initail run
> just obtained the active file as expected) and no articles were
> pulled. The -vv output revealed this:-
>
> mutley:/etc/news/leafnode# fetchnews -vv
> 1.9.9: verbosity level is 2
> Trying to connect to news.uk2.net ... connected.
> Getting new newsgroups from news.uk2.net
> Read server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.uk2.net
> comp.editors: considering articles 13666-15029
> comp.editors: 0 articles fetched, 1364 killed
> Disconnected from news.uk2.net.
> mutley:/etc/news/leafnode#
>
> All my leafnode settings are on default with the type set to ppp.
One other thought - sorry.
/var/spool/news and all it's subdirectories should be owned by news,
group news. If any are owned by root you can have problems.
To make sure
chown -R news /var/spool/news
chgrp -R news /var/spool/news
Might help ;-)
Glyn
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