Steve,
Thank you very much for the fast reply. I tried what you suggested, but now
that I knew to look in the /var/log/news/news.crit file, I found the
following entries:
Nov 11 21:37:32 cray3 innd: tradindexed: could not create
/var/spool/news/overview/group.index: Permission denied
Nov 11 21:37:32 cray3 innd: SERVER cant open overview method
For simplicity, my /etc/news/storage.conf file contains the following single
method:
method timehash {
newsgroups: *
class: 1
}
I did a chmod 666 on the group.index file referenced in the error message,
and now when I do an innd start, it seems to be coming up correctly. I am
just a bit nervous that I had to manually change the permissions on this one
file, and wonder if there are other files out there looming that will bite
me down the road. Is this something that one normally should have to do?
Thanks,
David
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On Behalf Of Cowles, Steve
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:04 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: INND Will not start up
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wesner
> Subject: INND Will not start up
>
> I am attempting to start up a very simple news server to
> do nothing more than receive a feed and drop it into a
> directory. To get the service up I installed
> cleanfeed-0.95.7b-12.noarch.rpm followed by
> inn-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm. This was all done as the root user.
> I then created an empty history database through the
> following commands:
>
> su - news
> cd /var/lib/news
> touch history
> makedbz -i
> mv history.n.dir history.dir
> mv history.n.hash history.hash
> mv history.n.index history.index
>
> I then updated my incoming.conf file appropriately and
> tried starting innd from root:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/innd start
>
> When I enter the various innd commands the following
> are the results:
>
> #service innd stop ( no result)
> #service innd restart
> Stopping INNFeed service: [OK]
> Starting INND system: [OK]
> #service innd status
> innd dead but subsys locked
>
> innd is indeed dead, and I'm stuck at this point as to
> where to go from here. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
Did you define a storage method? man storage.conf
The reason I ask... the same thing happened to me. Defining a storage method
for the articles fixed problem. FWIW: Storage method cnfs (Cyclic News File
System) is actually pretty cool. Especially if you use "raw" partition
devices.
Also, check the output of the files located in /var/log/news. Helped me get
past the startup problems.
Steve Cowles
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