Carel, hi, comments below, thanks for the help.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:41:42AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:28:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > .. > > Now I have really stuffed up my news system. :( > > Haven't we all sometime:) > > > Iniatially my potatoe box had the dialup utilities selected by > > tasksel all installed. But there seemed to be no news reader. > ... > > 5. When I noticed that fetchmail was running and that this was part > > of the leafnode setup i used dselect and removed them. > > Fetchmail's job is to get mail from your IPS to your local machine, it > has no connection with news, or leafnode. So how did you notice it was > part of the leafnode setup? um, er, um .... did I see fetchnews? > > > 6. When things still did not function correctly I removed slrn and > > slrnpull and reinstalled them (years of M$ conditioning asserting > > itself there) > > When things don't work it's usely due to some misconfiguration. That is > something wrong in one of the config files in /etc. But you reinstalled > them, so they are installed now? No errors there? No pending config's nothing pending. not a fundi with dselect, but managing slrn is installed (*) slrnpull is not installed (-) leafnode is installed (*) > or what have you? You know how to use dselect? If so have a look > and tell us the status of those packages. > > > > It wants rnews, and this is nowhere to be found on the machine > > except in /usr/lib/ , nor can I find it in dselect. this was after I put leafnode back. I get a hourly email from Cron Daemon telling me /bin/sh: rnews: command not found and another daily email from the same source saying /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: /usr/lib/news/bin/innconfval: No such file or +directory touch: /doex3331: Permission denied chmod: /doex3331: No such file or directory /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: /doex3331: Permission denied > > slrnpull shouldn't need rnews, so what's the deal? > What program is requesting it? > > > What I first need to do is to ensure that I have everything on board > > that I should have, and I suppose that means rnews. > > No, I don't think rnews is needed. > > > Running tasksel again merely tells me that I have the latest version > > of the dialup package installed, so it isn't going to fill in the > > I don't now about tasksel, never used it, but it's possible to get > a list of all packages a task depends on. how can i do that? Write them down, start > dselect and select them individually. Or use `apt-get install'. > > > > blanks. I don't want to remove the dialup package and start again as > > that would break the email connection. > > No need to do that. not going to > groetjes, carel en baaie dankie vir u help. ian let us see what glynn says too. -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
