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Re: Daily Usenet Report



On Aug 18, Will Lowe wrote
> I have my machine on a dialup ppp linuk until I get back to school in a
> week,  at which point it'll be full-connected all the time.  Lately I've
> been getting the "Daily Usenet Report" (I suppose generated someplace in
> cron.daily) which _always_ has errors like these:
> 
> Server status:
> No innd.pid file; did server die?
> Can't send "mode" command (sendto failure) No such file or directory.
> 
>                        Questions:
> 1) What's generating these?  I can't find an "inn" entry in
> /etc/cron.daily
> 2) Is there some way to quell these until I get back to school and have a
> real news connection?  If I run the server from here,  it dials my modem
> all the time trying to get news,  and ties up the phone line ... 
> 3) When I _do_ decide to run inn,  should I run it from rc.boot or from
> one of the runlevel rc.* directories?

I believe that it is innd - look in /etc/rc?.d/???inn. This is the inn
server control - ones beginning with S start it and ones with K kill it.
So a quick hack is to change the ones with S into K.

There is a program to do this IIRC, but I can't remember what it is.

Adrian
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