I got suck and inn working (I think). It was a real pain. There are so many configuration files for inn, and a lot of them come with defaults that don't work (or at least, they sure didn't work for me).
For a long time I was stuck with suck grabbing the articles OK but then inn would reject them. It turns out that storage.conf must contain entries (the default has all the lines commented out). There were lots of other configuration and file permission problems as well. This is clearly one of those areas where the "out of the box" configuration leaves a lot to be desired. Anyway, my conclusion is that this method is not for the faint of heart and there must be an easier way (perhaps leafnode). Doc Evans On 3 Jan 02, at 7:53, D. R. Evans wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > ------------=_1010069448-11608-3145 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > On 2 Jan 02, at 22:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > > > ------------=_1010036573-11608-3065 > > > > you might want to look at leafnode...it is geared much closer to what > > you are after and is reasonably simple to set up... > > > > Thanks. I spent some more time overnight working on this. A combination of > suck and inn seems like it is supposed to work. suck was dead easy to get > working, but blowed if I can get inn to behave; I happily says that new > groups will be accepted, but then continues to reject any arrivals from > suck. > > At this point I have enough time invested that I'll give it another > hour or two with the suck/inn combination, but if I still can't get it to > work, I'll take a look at leafnode. > > BTW, out-of-the-box inn from the 8.1 distro did not work at all on my > system because a bunch of permissions were set incorrectly -- rc.news > would start it up, MCC would show that it was running, but in fact innd > would simply crash immediately because some files were not writeable by > the news user. It seems that MCC doesn't really know that a daemon is > running; all it knows is that it was started and gave an [OK]; the fact > that it died 10 microseconds later seems to be irrelevant. > > Doc Evans > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Phone: +1 303 494 0394 > Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 > Fax: +1 781 240 0527 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------=_1010069448-11608-3145 > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > ------------=_1010069448-11608-3145-- -------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax: +1 781 240 0527 --------------------------------------------------------------
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