Or... anyone not had any troubles :)... and how'd you do that? All I want is a standalone news server, and am regretably a linux newbie
[root@tcsl root]# rpm -qa |grep inn inn-2.3.2-5 [root@tcsl root]# rpm -qa |grep news inews-2.3.2-5 [root@tcsl root]# /sbin/service innd start [ OK ] INND system: [ OK ] [root@tcsl root]# /sbin/service innd status innd dead but subsys locked just to be sure it wasn't lying [root@tcsl root]# ps -u news PID TTY TIME CMD [root@tcsl root]# telnet localhost 119 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused [root@tcsl root]# telnet localhost nntp Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused plugging in non-loopback ip address doesn't fair any better and the whole telnet thing should have worked... [root@tcsl root]# telnet localhost ssh Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.9p2 ^] Connection closed by foreign host. The whole [ OK ] INND system: [ OK ] thing is a little weird... it starts off "Starting INND system:" then I get the "[ OK ]" following it, and then [ OK ] gets written over "Starting" I figured maybe it was just a terminal thing (ssh). I've been slowly chipping away, but can chip no further [root@tcsl root]# inncheck -pedantic [root@tcsl root]# inncheck -perm /usr/bin:0: owned by root, should be news /usr/bin:0: in group root, should be news /usr/lib:0: owned by root, should be news /usr/lib:0: in group root, should be news /usr/bin/rnews:0: mode 4550, should be 10706 /usr/bin/rc.news:0: missing should /usr/bin and /usr/lib really be owned by news (i didn't think so) Also, I have no idea what kind of mode 10706 is supposed to be (reminder: linux newbie), but chmod doesn't like it very much. I've tried copying /etc/rc.news into /usr/bin/rc.news and it gets rid of that error for inncheck -perm but doesn't help things run any better. I've also tried running inndstart directly as news... [root@tcsl /]# su - news -c /etc/rc.news Starting innd. [root@tcsl /]# ps -u news PID TTY TIME CMD [root@tcsl /]# telnet localhost 119 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused /sbin/service innd stop gets rid of the subsys and other locks [root@tcsl /]# cd /var/lib/news [root@tcsl news]# ls -al total 32 drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Feb 5 09:49 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Feb 1 14:41 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 225 Sep 23 04:15 active -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Sep 23 04:16 active.times -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 72 Sep 23 04:16 distributions -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Feb 5 08:20 history -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 41 Feb 5 08:20 history.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 4500000 Feb 5 08:20 history.hash -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Feb 5 08:20 history.index -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 29 Feb 6 00:15 .news.daily -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 333 Sep 23 04:15 newsgroups -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Sep 23 04:16 subscriptions drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 4096 Feb 6 00:15 tmp Only thing that's getting reported in /var/log/news these days is this in news.notice: Feb 7 11:58:45 tcsl innd: SERVER descriptors 1024 Feb 7 11:58:45 tcsl innd: SERVER outgoing 1011 Feb 7 11:58:45 tcsl innd: SERVER ccsetup control:12 Feb 7 11:58:45 tcsl innd: SERVER lcsetup localconn:14 Feb 7 11:58:45 tcsl innd: SERVER rcsetup remconn:4 If you guys can't think of anything I guess I'll try erasing and reinstalling inn and starting over from scratch... maybe i messed up a config file somewhere that I can't see... but it's strange that I'm not getting any errors except, well, that it's dead. Sorry if this isn't the appropriate forum, in other newsgroups people have run out of ideas. And it is.. Linux for s/390. LPAR installation if it matters. ~ Daniel
