> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wesner
> Subject: RE: INND Will not start up
>
>
> Steve,
>
> Thank you very much for the fast reply. I tried what you
> suggested, but now that I knew to look in the
> /var/log/news/news.crit file, I found the following entries:
>
> Nov 11 21:37:32 cray3 innd: tradindexed: could not create
> /var/spool/news/overview/group.index: Permission denied
> Nov 11 21:37:32 cray3 innd: SERVER cant open overview method
>
> For simplicity, my /etc/news/storage.conf file contains the
> following single method:
>
> method timehash {
> newsgroups: *
> class: 1
> }
>
> I did a chmod 666 on the group.index file referenced in the
> error message, and now when I do an innd start, it seems to
> be coming up correctly. I am just a bit nervous that I had
> to manually change the permissions on this one file, and
> wonder if there are other files out there looming that will
> bite me down the road. Is this something that one normally
> should have to do?
>
> Thanks,
> David
Since INND runs as user/group 'news' -- all files and directories in
/var/spool/news need to owned by user/group news. i.e.
cd /var/spool/news
chown -R news.news *
BTW: The proper permissions for the group.index file should be 644
Steve Cowles
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