Thanks for the reply. The news daemon is running as rc.news, as
called by /etc/init.d/inn2. Also running is innwatch. My active
file exists. The problem appears (to me) to be an inability to
connect to my ISP news server. I use shadow passwords on my system.
Is this a problem? Is there a way to log the correspondence between
my system and my ISP while inn2 tries to connect?
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Russ
On 12 Nov 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
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> Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > I am using the inn2 package to try to set up a periodic download
> > of newsgroups I read frequently. I use a dial-up ISP, and have a
> > home LAN with three computers. I have read the docs that came with
> > the package, and have read the network, cnews, and nntp sections of
> > a Linux reference book I have, but have been unsuccessful in setting
> > up my packages. Below is an excerpt from the news.err log file, followed
> > by a cron message.
>
> Hey Russ,
>
> Curiously, getting a local news server set up and working was my
> project this weekend as well. I tried to set up INN2, didn't have much
> luck, and fell back to INN, which I now have working (I think...)
>
> (As an aside, if there are any documentation gurus out there, this
> particular topic (using INN(2) and suck to get a local newsfeed going)
> needs some attention. The only info I was able to find was at
> <URL:http://www.littondale.freeserve.co.uk/LinuxAndFreeserve/News.html>;
> it was helpful, but seemed a bit out of date, and didn't really have
> much info about INN, just suck.)
>
> - From the error output that you provided, it looks like the news server
> is failing to start up. I had this problem with INN for a while too --
> I had to generate some files in order to get it to work. IIRC, the big
> stopping block was /var/lib/news/active -- if you see an error message
> about an active file that suggests you run makeactive, that's the file
> you're missing.
>
> I'd suggest you poke around in /etc/init.d/, find out how the news
> server is getting started, and make some of those calls from the
> command line, so that you can get a better handle on why the server
> isn't starting up.
>
> Good luck, and let me know if I can help out further.
>
> john.
>
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