Hi,
I've recently started to see a problem with INN whereby the news.daily
script doesn't successfully complete, and leaves the server reserved.
Further investigation shows the following errors in the news.daily report:
expire begin Tue Dec 6 13:47:03 GMT 2005: (-v1)
expir
Hello,
I deleted one message. When I click over deleted message, the
Thunderbird says:
Error!
newsgroup server responded:Bad article number
Perhaps the article has expired
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1)
Click here to remove all expired articles
I want to combine nntpcache and inn on one machine. The nntpcache
documentation suggests to run INN on port 120 instead of 119.
When I change the "port" setting in inn.conf to 120 i get an error
message stating that INN could not use a privileged port because it
has not enough permissio
Hello,
I have some questions about setting up INN as a local only
news server.
Is there a way to get INN to send articles as mail to the
people who subscribe to the newsgroup the article was
sent to?
Further more, I seem to have some difficulties setting up
newsfeeds and incoming.conf right.
I
Hi folks,
I've got a recent sid with INN 2.3.1 and wanna make it work;)
I've done several things to reduce the errors but one still remains:
innd: SERVER cant dbzinit /var/lib/news/history No such file or directory
So, INN doesn't start. I've looked for a solution v
moin moin Joost!
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Debian-user ti
> I'm a really Debian-Newbie and wanna install INN. Before I used Suse and
> leafnode.
>
> However, my first question is where to put innd to start it at boot.time?
> The scrips are in /etc/ and the dirctories for the different runlevel (at the
> moment I'm sitting in
Hi folks,
I'm a really Debian-Newbie and wanna install INN. Before I used Suse and
leafnode.
However, my first question is where to put innd to start it at boot.time?
The scrips are in /etc/ and the dirctories for the different runlevel (at the
moment I'm sitting in front of a wiindoz
On 1 Apr 2001, I wrote:
> I'm just setting up inn on my Deb box (from the inn_1.7.2-4.1.deb).
[snip]
> when I try to post [...] I get this error:
[snip]
> Apr 1 13:30:06 localhost nnrpd[211]: localhost post failed Can't
> generate Message-ID, No such file or direct
I'm just setting up inn on my Deb box (from the inn_1.7.2-4.1.deb).
It is overkill for what I want, but since it is fun to try these
things...
Everything so far seems to be okay except when I try to post, at
which point I get this error:
Apr 1 13:28:42 localhost innd: SERVER starting
A
I'm having trouble getting INN to run such that it requires userid/password
to get access to it. I suspect this is because it doesn't have permission
to read the /etc/shadow file, but I don't know why. I've tried adding
news to the shadow group. I've tried setting t
after I upgrade my potato inn, inews dosn't work
[EMAIL PROTECTED] si$ ( echo "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
echo "Newsgroups: local.general"
echo "Subject: test
echo ""
echo test
) |
Thanks for your help Moritz.
> > But it does not open a connection on the port nntp (119) as I
> > thought.
> Hmm, why should it? It's a news server, so it should listen on the
> nntp port for incoming connections. A client should open a connection
> to the nntp port to speak with the server.
Ok,
David Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have installed the package inn. And I have started innd with its
> initial configuration.
Don't expect such a complex program like inn to do what you want,
without proper configuration.
> But it does not open a connection on the
I found http://www.littondale.freeserve.co.uk/LinuxAndFreeserve/News.html
very useful when I set it up recently. Mail me with any questions.
S.
"John S. J. Anderson" wrote:
>
> Greetings --
>
> Is there a beginner-targeted guide for getting this set-up? I've got
> everything installed, and so
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:55:19PM -0400, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
> I was looking for something that wouldn't require me to go to the
> bookstore.
You should have a copy of the INN FAQ always at hand. If you can read and
post to local groups (and you've learned how to add a
> "Jozef" == Jozef Skvarcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jozef> Managing Usenet by H. Spencer & D. Lawrence O'Reilly 1998
8^)
I was looking for something that wouldn't require me to go to the
bookstore.
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O'Reilly 1998
Jozef
On 29 Jul 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
> Greetings --
>
> Is there a beginner-targeted guide for getting this set-up? I've got
> everything installed, and something is happening (I appear to have
> some sort of local spool, an
Greetings --
Is there a beginner-targeted guide for getting this set-up? I've got
everything installed, and something is happening (I appear to have
some sort of local spool, and so on), but I'm not quite sure how to go
about configuring everything -- or even where to start.
Pointers, etc, to goo
o subscribe
suck to a group; just put it in sucknewsrc. Otoh, if you really want to look
at the active list, use the utility 'testhost' that is part of the suck
package: 'testhost some.news.host -a'
The suck-inn combination usually takes a little while to get configured
corr
OK so i can 'suck' selected newsgroups.
But I have forgotten how to download the 'active' file
so that I can select appropriate new groups.
How do I do that?
regards Chris
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:30:30PM +, Christopher Clark wrote:
> In other words. I want a news system that downloads selected news groups
> from my dialup account and distributes that to a few users on a few
> computers.
Suck is designed to do that. Run it with inn. And it wil
I am knee deep into upgrading from slink to potato (test cycle 1, because
I have the CD's ) Previously I had given up on inn and sort of had leafnode
working. I was considering inn again. Fundamental question is does inn
download everything? In other words. I want a news system that down
I`m getting the following error messages in /var/log/news/news.err when I try
to restart Innd
Feb 24 17:03:13 smalltown inndstart: inndstart cant setgroups Operation not
permitted
Feb 24 17:03:13 smalltown inndstart: inndstart cant bind Permission denied
This happens when I run rc.news as root
I wonder if anyone can help. I`ve been trying for days now to set up INN to
read news. So far I`ve been able to collect some messages from my isps` server
(news.dial.pipex.com) with nntpget which seems to have been put in
/var/spool/news/articles/cam/misc (the newsgroup is cam.misc). I assume
Before I report this as a bug, I thought I'd check others'
experience. Whenever apt-get (or formerly dpkg) upgrades inn, I find
that permissions in /var/lib/news and sometimes /var/log/news are
changed. Some of the files are now owned by root, rather than news,
meaning innd running as
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote:
: 1) I just installed inn and I am getting
:
: start-stop-daemon: command not found
:
: whenever I am starting or stopping it.
:
: Did I missed something or is it a bug?
Make sure you're starting or stopping as the root user (use su or
1) I just installed inn and I am getting
start-stop-daemon: command not found
whenever I am starting or stopping it.
Did I missed something or is it a bug?
2) Although getlist(1) manages to get about 45000 groups, actsync(8) is
hanging up and I have to kill it. It seems to put in the
Hello.
I've been looking around for Debian packages of a recent version of
INND, but I could only find the old 1.7 version. Even Potato has
INND 1.7. :(
Is it possible to find an INND 2.x package for Debian?
Last weekend I tried to install INN on my sysytem.
I unpacked one from hamm.
during actsync innd went away - got segfault
Leter I discovered that it happens when file 'active' is largerthan ~64K
My INN server works fine but when I try to put /var/spool/news via NFS - NFS
works fine because smail spool is mounted via NFS and works. - and send a
message to the server, overchan & syslog & klogd takes all the CPU to log
Mar 2 15:16:20 eagle kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status
Mark Brown wrote:
> Last time I checked, the scripts provided by suck should replace the
> file. They copy the outgoing file away, and then flush it (which closes
> the old outgoing and creates a new one). Here's the relevant bit of
> script:
>
> if [ ! -s ${OUTGOINGNEW} ]; then
> mv ${OUTGOI
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 12:47:27PM +0200, Tapio Väättänen wrote:
> I use get-news script provided by Suck pakage. When
> I have written new articles get-news will send them
> out next time I run the script. Now, I don't know is
> problem with suck or inn, but after the articles
I'm having a little problems with my off-line
news server. As said inte subject, I'm using
inn as server and use Suck to get news to my machine
and send them out.
I use get-news script provided by Suck pakage. When
I have written new articles get-news will send them
out next time
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerry Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I get inn to stop putting references to every article it receives from
>suck (via innxmit) in /var/spool/news/out.going so that rpost won't try to
>post it back to my ISP?
You need to put t
I'm running Debian 2.0 and am using suck/inn to pull a small newsfeed from my
ISP's news server. Fetching articles works fine, posting doesn't.
If I don't include a line in /etc/news/newsfeeds for my remote ISP, nothing
gets posted remotely. If I do include a line in newsfe
I'm trying to get my dial-up linux box to read and post news smoothly but
unfortunately that's not happening at the moment. I can read news just fine.
Posting, however, is a different matter. When I try to post an article or a
follow-up using slrn I get the following messages in the status li
For those who saw my original post and cared ..
I discovered why pgpverify quit working. Seems David Lawrence has begun
sending his control messages from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", instead of
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Solution? Add these lines to /etc/news/control.ctl:
--
newgroup:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:comp.*
I _had_ pgpverify working with INN 1.7.2. Now, suddenly, it doesn't
work anymore :) I'm not at all sure this is Debian's fault (I don't
recall a new INN package being installed), but I wondered if anyone else
was having luck (good or bad) with Debian INN and pgpverify ...
Ba
> I got that fixed, but it now marks all the newsgroups Suck tries to post
> (to) as unwanted. In the daily news report, it listed all the articles as
> unwanted... so how do I make them 'wanted' and get Suck to work? ideas?
Do you have the groups defined as active? To do this, use:
ctlinnd newgro
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Thomas Behrndt wrote:
> > So it seems that INN is just rejecting the posts for some reason. Any ideas?
> Your host doesn't have permission to post news articles. You need to give
> access for posting in /etc/nnrp.access. Add a line like:
> hostnam
> So it seems that INN is just rejecting the posts for some reason. Any ideas?
Your host doesn't have permission to post news articles. You need to give
access for posting in /etc/nnrp.access. Add a line like:
hostname:Read Post:::*
at the end of the file. The hostname should
Hello. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I can't seem to make suck work with INN.
Suck downloads the articles fine from my remote newsserver, and it says its
posted the articles locally. But when I look in /var/log/news/news.notice, I
see the following:
Sep 15 01:04:55 mithrandir inn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> : Well actually I am waiting with a new release for inn 2.2 or so ..
>
>Great! I'm glad to hear this. 2.0 was frighteningly buggy, and I
>hav
On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Eric Jacoboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter
: >capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to
:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Jacoboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter
>capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to
>have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd l
Hi,
Having a RH system, i've switched to Debian Hamm. So far, so good...
I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter
capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to
have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure
Is there anyone on this list who is running the
original package configured INN NEWS server from
Debian 1.3.1 and would like to help me?
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>I´ve also heard that it might be a "variable" problem in the server.
AFAIK it's a client misconfiguration. Check the raw article on the
news server, to see if there's a From: header (in /var/spool/new
Hello.
I have installed a Debian 1.3.1 system om a server out on
the internet. The server acts as a http and mail server running
apache and smail on a Pentium 100.
I also have installed the INN package and the package maintainers
configuration is good enough for me because I want to run it all
Tony Schonfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello everubody ,
>
> Since my News provider has disable the NEWNEWS command i've decided
> to use Suck with Inn.
> How to use this package for full compatibility with Inn ? i've
> modified the get-news scr
hello everubody ,
Since my News provider has disable the NEWNEWS command i've decided
to use Suck with Inn.
How to use this package for full compatibility with Inn ?
i've modified the get-news script to have -M flag and the
target directory, because in the original version the art
need to do. You'll have to add the
lists to inn with ctlinnd. Then you'll have to add your new newsgroups
into sucknewsrc. Finally, try adding something like the following to
your /etc/ppp/ip-up:
# Fetch any news.
/usr/sbin/get-news
The get-news script will handle both downloading ne
I've installed suck and inn on my home system. Inn
seems to work, at least on the local.test groups it
started with. Now I want to add some public groups
and fill the news spool and send out messages using
suck. I would like to do this in my ip-up script,
but I haven't figured out h
I've had some users complain a few times about not being able to post
to our news server.. the error is "Can't generate Message-ID, Unknown error".
If I restart innd (reload doesn't work), someone can post *1* time, and
then we're back to the error. Is this unique to me, or is this a bug?
Tim
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On %M %N, Carl Fink wrote
> According to dselect, newsx works only with cnews, not with inn (which
> I'm running). Is this correct?
I have installed version 0.8 (not packaged) and the man page says:
-c, --cnews
Set to C News mode as opposed to INN
I tried tonight to upgrade various packages with my Debian 1.3.1
CD-ROM. Mostly it went well, but innd now fails to load! I purged
the package and reinstalled the original inn package, but they both
fail with variations of this message:
Jul 26 23:54:06 carlf innd: /var/lib/news/history cant
According to dselect, newsx works only with cnews, not with inn (which
I'm running). Is this correct?
I'd hate to go ahead and install it, just to uninstall it again after
reading the docs.
Thanks.
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Hallo.
I've got a really nasty problem with the Debian INN.
I've set up a crontab entry like
*/2 * * * * /etc/news/scripts/send-nntp news.birch.de
while the newsfeeds entry is
birch/aliases...
[..]
:birch (supposed to be the name in /var/spool/out.going/)
And then all entri
Hey
Anyone know how to alter the 'timeout time' of the INN newsserver, ie. the
time the server breaks the connection with a client, if a client is idle ?
thanks
Remco.
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Hey
I'm looking for a way a can tell INN to keep the line 'open' for a longer
period of time (nnrpd <-> client)... anyone know how to configure it, or
should I recompile INN ?
thanks..
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On Sun, 18 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 1997, Francois Gouget wrote:
[...]
> > 441 Can't set system "NNTP-Posting-Host" header
[...]
> You're getting these errors because the NNTP-Posting-Host header isn't
> filtered out.
> Just write your own script to do that, instead of
On Sun, 18 May 1997, Francois Gouget wrote:
>
> I recently (yesterday) upgraded my inn and suck packages from the
> bo debian packages and I find that now when I try to post a message to a
> newsgroup I get the error:
>
> Official host name: news.grolier.fr
> Alias
I recently (yesterday) upgraded my inn and suck packages from the
bo debian packages and I find that now when I try to post a message to a
newsgroup I get the error:
Official host name: news.grolier.fr
Alias news.club-internet.fr
Address: 194.158.97.89
Connected to news.grolier.fr
200
Hi All!
After getting used to Debian for over two months now (really great work...),
I want to install and configure INN and suck for off-line newsreading.
(I choosed INN, because the package description says:
"INN is Debian's preferred news transport system.")
But configuring
Hi all,
Does anyone have a feeling for what would be reasonable expire times
for the various newsgroup catagories??
thanks,
Rowan
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Cybernex Networking
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. . . .
Hi,
Anyone have success in building inn 1.5?
I haven't found any binary distributions and having a rough time getting
the distribution to compile properly...
TIA
Ricardo
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.de connect
>[time&date] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de unrecognized XMODE READER
>[time&date] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de unrecognized XTHREAD
>DBINIT
That's not an error nor a problem; it's just an informational message.
Trn knows about some exten
Hi all,
i have some errors in /var/log/news/news.notice when invoking trn:
[time&date] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de connect
[time&date] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de unrecognized XMODE READER
[time&date] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de unrecognized XTHREAD
DBIN
Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Argh, this has caused me problems to no end! Can someone please send me a
> working configuration for suck and inn?
> I can get suck to gather news and send it locally, but I can't figure out
> how to get locally written me
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Paul Haggart wrote:
> Argh, this has caused me problems to no end! Can someone please send me a
> working configuration for suck and inn?
>
> I can get suck to gather news and send it locally, but I can't figure out
> how to get locally written
Argh, this has caused me problems to no end! Can someone please send me a
working configuration for suck and inn?
I can get suck to gather news and send it locally, but I can't figure out
how to get locally written messages sent to my ISP's news server. I don't
want to
provides the simple /usr/bin/mail that is so
handy for scripts. If the inn package you use does not depend on mailx, you
should report this as a bug.
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I seem to have managed to set up inn to process my uucp newsfeed (never been
able to get that far with Slackware). However, I keep receiving regular
(daily) mail messages:
>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 03:09:28 +0200
>To: news
>Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> news.daily expireov
dies.
:
: I have read something in the inn-faq about linux not being able to handle MMAP
: update of the active-file, so I recompiled inn with active=READ, but this
: doesn't help either.
:
: Does anybody knows what can be happening here?
:
: Thanks in advance,
:
: Andre Koopal
:
:24:10 windmill innd: ME cant symlink /var/spool/news/nl/misc/0 and nl/
newsgroups/0 File exists
and innd dies.
I have read something in the inn-faq about linux not being able to handle MMAP
update of the active-file, so I recompiled inn with active=READ, but this
doesn't help either.
Does an
Chris,
We've just released Debian 1.1 and we removed Debian 0.93 from the FTP
sites. It doens't make sense to stick with 0.93 . I assure you that
1.1 is robust. Please install it, and you'll find that inn is there.
Thanks
Bruce
Chris Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rather than install Debian 1.1, I would prefer to stay with Debian .93
> because my reason for changing from Slackware is it's general unreliablity
> (and I have already spent a lot of time getting this far!)
Don't take this the wrong way, but you are wa
Hello to all,
I have just changed from Slackware with kernel 1.2.8 to Debian .93 with
kernel 1.2.13 only to discover that it doesn't appear to come with the inn
news server.
After checking out the packages available for Debian, it appears that the
only inn package for Debian is the ELM ve
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