Hi Marco, This patch should fix it, unless I'm mistaken. (I'm not completely familiar with where things are installed in the Debian package.)
--- inn2-2.4.2/debian/inn2.postinst.orig 2005-05-01 20:46:01.000000000 -0700 +++ inn2-2.4.2/debian/inn2.postinst 2005-05-01 20:56:07.000000000 -0700 @@ -4,18 +4,19 @@ db_version 2.0 init_inn_files() { - cd /var/lib/news + dbdir=`/usr/lib/news/bin/innconfval pathdb` + cd "$dbdir" for file in active newsgroups; do if [ ! -f $file ]; then - echo "Installing initial content for /var/lib/news/$file" + echo "Installing initial content for $dbdir/$file" install -m 644 -o news -g news \ /usr/share/doc/inn2/examples/$file . fi done if [ ! -f history.dir ]; then - echo -n "Building history database in /var/lib/news... " + echo -n "Building history database in $dbdir... " if ! /usr/lib/news/bin/makehistory; then echo "failed!" return -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]