Re: inn refuses messages that contain "Distribution:" in theheader
Hi, thank you.
I think my active file is all right. I get news refused because of the
active file (with the message "Unwanted GROUP" in the log) but that's
all right because the flaw goes to two servers - one accepting alt. and
the other accepting the other news. The public server is a third one,
which just caches the news when asked by users.
My problem is with the news rejected with "Unwanted DISTRIBUTION".
In the install.txt file of inn, i read that if you dont explicitely say
something else, the news with "Distribution:" in the header are
rejected. They say you cant use wildcards - so i have to explicitely
write down all the distributions i have to accept, but i still didn't
find how to do it.
I'm still searching a solution - I.E. i still dont know where i have to
list them so they shall be accepted - here's the discussion cut for the
other members :
Thank you.
> that you want are listed here, active file will turn away groups with
> 'unwanted' in the log if they are not listed here. If you need a copy of a
> good active file let me know.
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> >
> > Here's the problem :
> >
> > I always get news refused, I.E. in my log (var/log/news/news), i always
> > get the following :
> > <date> <time> - <name of the server which pushes the news to mine> -
> > <ident of the message> 437 Unwanted distribution "<dist>"
> > Where <dist> is a distribution name, like "fido7" or "Global" or "hun"
> > or "sfnet" ...
> >
> > Users are complaining about the low amount of news present on the
> > server.
> > It seems that the accepted news dont have a "Distribution:" field in the
> > header.
> >
> > Has somebody an idea of how i can do to make them accepted ?
> > I read about the "/etc/news/distributions" in
> > http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~dwhitesi/docs/inn.html but i didn't see
> > anything about the syntax of this file (no man, ...), so i tried to
> > create it with an * in it but it doesn't seem to affect the server.
> >
> > How could i say to inn that he has to accept news from any distribution
> > ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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