Hi As requested my leafnode config file. I also checked the permisions as you suggested and all directories from / var/spool/news downwards are owned by news.news.
Thanks Pat (who is more awake than he was last night due to the fact that is a bank holiday over here in the UK today :) ## This is the NNTP server leafnode fetches its news from. ## You need read and post access to it. Mandatory. server = news.uk2.net ## Unread discussion threads will be deleted after this many days if ## you don't define special expire times. Mandatory. expire = 20 ## ## All the following parameters are optional ## ## I have free access to my news server. If you don't have, comment out ## the following two lines and change them accordingly. # username = gulbrandsen # password = secret ## Standard news servers run on port 119. If your newsserver doesn't, comment ## out the following line and change it accordingly. # port = 8000 ## This is another news server which stores some groups that are not ## available on the first one. You can define username, password and port ## for each server separately. # supplement = sex.and.warez.com # username = xenu # password = secret ## This is a news server which does not understand the ## "LIST NEWSGROUP news.group" command. For this reason, we don't try to ## download newsgroups descriptions when getting new newsgroups. This is ## achieved by putting "nodesc = 1" somewhere behind the server/supplement ## line. # supplement = broken.upstream.server # nodesc = 1 ## Here we have another news server which has a very slow connection. For ## that reason, we wait a full minute before we give up trying to connect. ## The default is 10 seconds. # supplement = really.slow.snail # timeout = 60 ## Non-standard expire times (glob(7) wildcard constructs possible) # groupexpire comp.os.linux.* = 5 # groups too big to hold articles 20 days # groupexpire any.local.newsgroup = 100 # very interesting, hold articles longer ## Never fetch more than this many articles from one group in one run. ## Be careful with this; setting it much below 1000 is probably a bad ## idea. # maxfetch = 2000 ## Fetch only a few articles when we subscribe a new newsgroup. The ## default is to fetch all articles. # initialfetch = 100 ## If you want to use leafnode like an offline newsreader (e.g. Forte ## Agent) you can download headers and bodies separately if you set ## delaybody to 1. In this case, fetch will only download the headers ## and only when you select an article, it will download the body. ## This can save a huge amount of bandwith if only few articles are really ## read from groups with lots of postings. ## This feature works not very well with Netscape, though (which is not ## a fault of Leafnode). # delaybody = 0 ## To avoid spam, you can select the maximum number of crosspostings ## that are allowed in incoming postings. Setting this below 5 is ## probably a bad idea. The default is unlimited crossposting. # maxcrosspost = 5 ## If you suffer from repeatedly receiving old postings (this happens ## sometimes when an upstream server goes into hiccup mode) you can ## refuse to receive them with the parameter "maxage" which tells the ## maximum allowed age of an article in days. The default maxage is 10 ## days. # maxage = 10 ## maxlines will make fetch reject postings that are longer than a certain ## amount of lines. # maxlines = 100 ## minlines will make fetch reject postings that are shorter than a certain ## amount of lines. # minlines = 2 ## maxbytes will make fetch reject postings that are larger # maxbytes = 50000 ## timeout_short determines how many days fetch gets a newsgroup which ## has been accidentally opened. The default is two days. # timeout_short = 1 ## timeout_long determines how many days fetch will wait before not getting ## an unread newsgroup any more. The default is seven days. # timeout_long = 6 ## timeout_active determines how many days fetch will wait before re-reading ## the whole active file. The default is 90 days. # timeout_active = 365 ## If you want to have your newsreader score/kill on Xref: lines, you might ## want to uncomment this. # create_all_links = 1 ## If you want to filter out certain regular expressions in the header, ## create a "filterfile" (how this is done is explained in the README) ## and set # filterfile = /path/to/your/filterfile ## If your hostname does not show up in the Message-IDs of your postings ## properly, use this parameter to select something suitable. Do not use ## a fantasy name, it may interfere with the propagation of your messages. ## Note: if the message-id is generated by your newsreader, changing this ## setting will not affect it. # hostname = host.domain.country
