Re: need help - inn2
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Russ Cook <russcook@flash.net> 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it was helpful, but seemed a bit out of date, and didn't really have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.
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