At 05:05 PM 1/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I am going nuts....
>First off let me say that I love dnews 5.4g5. I have been very pleased over
>the last couple of weeks with its features and administration.
>
>I need to lhave users get their postings through port 120, but I have added
>the listen_extra line to dnews.conf (I assume at the bottom) with the actual
>IP address, with the default 127.0.0.1.... even tried it standing on my
>head. Do I need to change something in another file as well? I have a couple
>thousand users who have news.servername.com:120 set up and I would like to
>SLOWLY migrate everyone to 119.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>Tom
You should use the address of your news server, lets say it's 1.2.3.4
listen_extra 1.2.3.4:120
However, if you are on unix, then this will fail because port 120 is protected,
the solution is to run dnews as root, to do that change the ownership
of the spool directories etc to root and modify dnews_start.sh so it
sets the owner to root not news.
Let me know if that doesn't solve it.
ChrisP.
