John Clarke wrote:
Terry,
This is the error you get if you simply create three empty files (it's
either history.dir or history.pag that causes this error). You need to
stop innd, delete history*, create the files with makehistory, fixup the
permissions and names, then restart innd.
I do
John Clarke wrote:
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
May 30 14:22:49 owl innd: SERVER cant dbzinit /usr/local/news/db/history
No such file or directory
This error appears if any one of the three of the history* files are
missing.
Unfortunately, they were
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:02:26PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
John Clarke wrote:
Before you do that, have you tried running `makehistory'? Once that's
done, rename history.n.dir and history.n.pag to history.dir and
history.pag, chown them to news:news and then start innd. It should
I've just installed inn and no matter what I try, it complains about not
finding its history file.
The problem is that the file (and db version) is there.
Any ideas on this?
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On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 23:30, Terry Collins wrote:
I've just installed inn and no matter what I try, it complains about not
finding its history file.
The problem is that the file (and db version) is there.
Any ideas on this?
yeah but it's one of those annoying 'switch to something else'
David Fitch wrote:
...snip
yeah but it's one of those annoying 'switch to something else'
responses...
try leafnode instead, it's simple and works. I wouldn't bother
with inn unless you're a largish ISP.
I've had suck and inn before, when I had the two BBSs, etc, but my isp
doesn't
Terry,
Have you checked that the history files that you have are in the
directory that inn expects? The directory is configured with `pathdb'
in inn.conf:
[johnc@wombat ~]$ grep pathdb /etc/news/inn.conf
pathdb: /var/lib/news
[johnc@wombat ~]$ ls -l /var/lib/news/
John Clarke wrote:
Thanks
Terry,
Have you checked that the history files that you have are in the
directory that inn expects? The directory is configured with `pathdb'
in inn.conf:
This version uses /usr/local/news and inn.conf is correct. I've also
checked that nothing contains
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
May 30 14:22:49 owl innd: SERVER cant dbzinit /usr/local/news/db/history
No such file or directory
This error appears if any one of the three of the history* files are
missing.
At this stage, I'm thinking hidden character error
