Re: really stuffed up news system!!!!!!!
Ian Balchin <inksi@imaginet.co.za> writes:
> 1 there are no entries in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups
> 2 if I want to run fetchnews -vv -f I have to do this from root, I
> caanot run this from my user account.
> 3 when I do this i can see from the modem that data is being
> received but the hdd light does not flicker and thus nothing is
> being written to file
>
> Are 1,2 & 3 linked?
Oh yes! fetchnews can only be run as root or as user news - you
can't run it as a user and shouldn't change permissions to do so.
as root try
fetchnews -vvvv > fn.txt (yes four v's!! Let's get verbose ;-)
and post up fn.txt
Glyn
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