On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:00:35PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in > > > > /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ and are listed in > > > > /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk too. > > > > > > Have you tried running 'texpire' before running fetch? > > > > Yes (just now) - no difference. > > > > I did just notice something else though: leafnode attempts to post an > > article twice! I've no idea why this is happening at all - I can't > > even post to nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk, and it doesn't have a feed of > > the newsgroup I'm trying to post to! [snip] > > What could be causing this? Help! :-) > > -- > ... this is Debian, everything should 'just work'!
Yeah, I know :-( > I haven't used leafnode on Debian. I installed it on a RedHat > machine, but from a tarball (ie not with an rpm). I had to change > the permissions/owner of a few files and directories before it > worked properly (some things have to be writeable by the 'news' > user). All of /var/spool/news is news.news and ug+w. > The readme file that comes with it covers this. It should be in the > .deb as well, (installed in /usr/doc/leafnode* maybe?). Maybe you > could check that everything is in order, as I did. I've just done so, and it appears to be fine. Any other ideas? :-) -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]
