Re: leafnode problem
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:00:35PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> > > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in
> > > > /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ and are listed in
> > > > /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk too.
> > >
> > > Have you tried running 'texpire' before running fetch?
> >
> > Yes (just now) - no difference.
> >
> > I did just notice something else though: leafnode attempts to post an
> > article twice! I've no idea why this is happening at all - I can't
> > even post to nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk, and it doesn't have a feed of
> > the newsgroup I'm trying to post to!
[snip]
> > What could be causing this? Help! :-)
> > --
> ... this is Debian, everything should 'just work'!
Yeah, I know :-(
> I haven't used leafnode on Debian. I installed it on a RedHat
> machine, but from a tarball (ie not with an rpm). I had to change
> the permissions/owner of a few files and directories before it
> worked properly (some things have to be writeable by the 'news'
> user).
All of /var/spool/news is news.news and ug+w.
> The readme file that comes with it covers this. It should be in the
> .deb as well, (installed in /usr/doc/leafnode* maybe?). Maybe you
> could check that everything is in order, as I did.
I've just done so, and it appears to be fine.
Any other ideas? :-)
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alisdair mcdiarmid alisdair@jml.net
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