Re: Leafnode not getting news

[Brian Frederick Kimball <bfk@footbag.org>]

Glyn Millington wrote:

> /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!

You need about a thousand directories under message.id/ also.  On my
system I've got message.id/000/ through message.id/999/.

You may just want to purge and then reinstall leafnode.  That's the
easiest way to get a proper /var/spool/news for leafnode (what about
news/leaf.node/ ? news/out.going/ ? etc).