Leafnode not getting news

[Glyn Millington <glyn@mill29.fsnet.co.uk>]

I'm having trouble with Leafnode - moving back from Emacs/Gnus to
Vim/Mutt/Slrn, I wiped out the /var/spool/news folder.  Long
story!      I've replaced the folder (as user news) and leafnode
has donme it's magic and set up subfolder for the groups I want
to read.  But the articles aren't coming in.

/var/log/news says things like

Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article /var/spool/news/message.id/658/<20010216.1048.183433snz@pcserv.demon.co.uk>: No such file or directory
Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: Cannot create directory /var/spool/news/message.id/077: No such file or directory
Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article /var/spool/news/message.id/077/<m3r90zndgd.fsf@fork.man2.dom>: No such file or directory
Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: Cannot create directory /var/spool/news/message.id/092: No such file or directory
Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article /var/spool/news/message.id/092/<96itou$9k6$1@polo.demon.co.uk>: No such file or directory


Except that the directory message.id DOES exist!

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Glyn M




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