>
> Hi,
> I am evaluating dnews on solaris 8 as a replacement for INN 1.5 server
which we had.
> As a precaution I am using a different machine to configure dnews than
> our present news server.
> But after configuration access.conf and newsfeeds.conf When I am
> trying to start the dnews by running dnews_start.sh script it comes out
with
> following message:
> ==========
> ./dnews_start.sh
> drwxr-x--- 4 news news 1536 Aug 21 06:09 /usr/local/dnews
> Detaching dmgrsvc, use -nodetach to run in forground
> arg[0] = ./dnews_start
> ddir = /usr/local/dnews/dnews
> Setting file ownerships just incase
> /usr/local/dnews/dmgrsvc: Not owner
> /usr/local/dnews/dnews_start: Not owner
> /usr/local/dnews/dnews_start.sh: Not owner
> /usr/local/dnews/dmulti_start.sh: Not owner
> Finished setting file ownerships
> bind failed
> : Permission denied
> ==========
> When I check these files has their ownership changed to root!!
> One strange thing is above message is ddir which points to the dnews
> executible. Do it need to point to some other directory.
> There is no log file created in /usr/local/dnews directory.
Ok, are you logged in as root when you run dnews_start.sh, if not try that
If it still fails check your inetd.conf to check if you have something else
assigned
to run on port 119.
ChrisP.
