On Mon, 8 May 2000, Bob Hartung wrote:
> To all who responded:
> Thanks for the responses. As I said I am NEW to this game. This is a
> generic RH 6.0 install and it seems that all of these services are set to
> run out of the box. I'll have to do more learning in order to kill every
> service that isn't necessary.
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> Bob
> Ken Kirchner wrote:
>
> > Chances are that if you dont know what it is, you should have it running.
umm.. that should have read "SHOULDN'T have it running." :-)
You are correct, RedHat likes to turn things on if they are installed.
> > inn is the InterNetNews server (aka Usenet or NetNews). Since you
> > probably dont want to be running this, I would do the following:
> >
> > run '/usr/sbin/ntsysv' and disable innd. This will keep it from starting
> > up the next time you restart your system.
> >
> > To kill the currently running inn daemon you should run
> > '/etc/rc.d/init.d/innd stop' and if it's running it will be halted.
> >
> > and for future reference, inn.conf is in /etc/news/
> >
> > you could even go so far as to 'rpm -e inn-2.2.2-3' (if that is the
> > version you have) to remove it from your system.
> >
> > -Ken
> >
> > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Bob Hartung wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am new to masquerade. I have a huge file in /var/spool/mail/news
> > > that was to to 16 Mb when discovered. Mail has numerous messages from
> > > my ISP [@home] to the effect that inn.conf is not confugured correctly.
> > >
> > > Questions:
> > > 1. What is inn.conf
> > > 2. Where is inn.conf. I can't seem to find in on my system
> > > [probably the "root" of the problem]
> > > 3. Does it seem therefore that I am querying the @home server for
> > > "news" information. As noted above, this part is all new to me. \
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > >
> > > Bob
> >
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