I had a similiar problem (which wasn't helped by my upstream news-server
going down and since fetch doesn't give any progress indication I sat there
for 1 1/2 hours before realsing the damn thing was down and gave in for the
night :). It seemed more or less random about when it decided to get the
active file down.
One thing I did do before it got it down which I don't
know if it had any bearing or not was change the permissions on
/var/spool/news and the directories underneath to those recomended in the
docs (rwxrwsrw- I think - can't check since I've gotten rid of leafnode as
getting the news down takes too much time: metered phone bills *sigh*).
Btw, when you upgraded did you check hosts.allow to make sure it hadn't
changed it back to localhost (just a thought)?
Hope you figure it out.
Cheers
Dave
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 14:46 -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
> Thanks to Frank and Dave for setting me straight on the
> /etc/host.allow entries, I thought I had Leafnode working properly. I
> was using leafnode version 1.4-10 and have now upgraded to version
> 1.6.2-2.
>
> I can access leafnode from netscape on the workstation, but it can't
> find the group information file. I ran "fetch -v" and it went out to
> the upstream server and requested the active list but it did nothing
> with it as far as I could tell. Per the system log it is looking for
> /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo which wasn't there so I did a
> touch as user news to create it, still with no joy at getting the
> active groups. Fetch and leafnode can't open
> /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo and netscape still indicates that
> the group information file doesn't exist.
>
> Suggestions please.
>
> TIA
>
> John C. Ellingboe
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